Prosegur Security Launches Next-Generation, Award-Winning Overhead RFID Technology With Over 99% Accuracy

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (January 23, 2023) – Prosegur Security, a global leader in security technology, has launched a next generation retail-specific overhead RFID Smart Exit that has proven itself in the metal-heavy world of aircraft manufacturing with accuracy of between 99% and 100%. The new system was invented by Dr. Sabesan Sithamparanathan, a Cambridge University scientist who has received Queen’s Award for Enterprise in 2021 by the late Queen Elizabeth II for his scientific achievement.

“Achieving over 99% accuracy in RFID has been the holy grail of retail for the past 20 years, and I am thrilled that it is finally here,” said Tony D’Onofrio, CEO of Prosegur’s global retail business unit. “Dr. Sabesan’s invention has already been proven in some of the toughest and most demanding environments where top accuracy is non-negotiable, such as aircraft manufacturing and the medical field. Prosegur is able to bring this revolutionary RFID technology to the world of retail so that the full potential and promise of RFID can be realized both in terms of inventory tracking and asset protection.”

The unprecedented precision of Prosegur’s new RFID system is achieved through a wholly new patented approach to resolving dead spots present in RFID installations.

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In today's Daily:

4,000 Stores blaming no-bail reform
Mayor Blames ORC
Assemblyman Blames CVS, Retailers & Cops
Everybody Blames George Soros's $40 Million PAC
Texas Just wants to 'Boot Them Out'


4,000 NYC Independent Grocers 'UBA' Demanding Repeat Offenders Be Bail Eligible
United Bodegas of America

NYC bodegas padlock laundry detergent as shoplifting scourge hits new low
Desperate Bronx grocers are cracking down on serial thieves by slipping steel chains through the handles of laundry detergent bottles and securing them with padlocks - a new low in the shoplifting scourge across the Big Apple.

Thieves were cleaning up - to the tune of at least $1,000 a month in detergent alone in one bodega. "Before the pandemic, New York was the best. Now, I don't know what happened to the people," huffed Collado.

The lock-and-chain strategy was hatched by the United Bodegas of America in the wake of spiking thefts, explained Fernando Mateo, the organization's president.

"The justice system is just not cooperating, and it's getting to a point where you either have to padlock every item that has to be stolen, or you have to fight back," said Mateo. "And if you fight back you take the risk of going to jail for protecting your property."

The city's shoplifting crisis is showing no signs of abating, with petit larceny - or theft of less than $1,000 - up 14% this year through Jan. 15, compared to the same time period in 2022, according to NYPD data.

Residents stunned by the latest security inconvenience said the neighborhood's junkie hordes were mostly to blame, as is the city's revolving-door justice system.

"We live in a neighborhood where it's a lot of drug addicts," said Tylique Miles, 41, adding the thieves quickly flip the high-priced staples at a discount.

"The police can't do anything to help," griped Manuel San Miguel, 61, alluding to the state's 2019 controversial bail reform law that bans judges from setting bail in cases involving non-violent felonies and misdemeanors such as shoplifting.

A group representing 4,000 independent grocers is demanding that "repeat theft offenders" be made bail eligible, undoing part of the bail reform legislation - and addressing the fact that petty thieves tend not to be prosecuted. nypost.com


Retail Security Guards Instructed to Take Hands-Off Approach
Security guards at theft-plagued Walgreens stores 'not there to protect product'
Security guards at a theft-plagued pharmacy chain have been instructed not to confront the shoplifters when they walk out without paying, according to a Walgreens executive.

Walgreens, which operates 240 stores in the Big Apple, including Duane Reade, has been riddled by robberies to the point where the stores have had to put items like toothpaste behind lock and key. The chain hired unarmed guards and off-duty cops - but they haven't been much of a deterrent.

"[Security guards] are not there to protect the product," said Joseph Stein, director of asset protection solutions for Walgreen, during the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce "Anti-Crime Summit" on Thursday.

"They are there to de-escalate [a situation] and to protect the customer and the employees," he added.

Walgreens hires security guards from Allied Universal, Stein said, adding that the chain also hires off-duty police officers, "who have different powers" than the unarmed guards.

A Walgreens spokesman said in a statement, "The safety of our patients, customers and team members is our top priority. Allied Security, and any unarmed security professionals we employ are meant to serve as a deterrent."

"Lately, it seems to be a trend that, when a theft occurs in a store, security guards in the store are just supposed to watch it happen and wait for the cops to come (long after the thieves have left). I keep seeing these videos of someone unarmed just walking into an Apple store or Walmart or whatever, pocketing some phones, and just walking out without being stopped," wrote a Reddit user last month, sparking 179 responses. nypost.com


Mayor Adams Blames ORC for Uptick in Thefts
The Manhattan Chamber of Commerce's Inaugural Anti-Crime Summit - Thursday, Jan. 19 - 300 in-person Attendees - Reached Capacity

The adverse effects of crime are having a severe impact on the quality of life and safety of New Yorkers and visitors. We want to give voice to the concerns of business owners in Manhattan and help find solutions.

This half-day summit is being hosted by the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, together with other Manhattan-based organizations such as business improvement districts and civic associations.

The Mayor will provided introductory remarks which were followed by two panels: (1) a diverse array of business leaders giving voice to their issues; and, (2) government officials who are in a position to enact change and address concerns. In this way, we can present a unified approach and hope to educate people on the issues and help, in some small way, to brainstorm solutions and highlight key action items. manhattancc.org

Adams blames uptick in thefts on 'organized crime' and cash-only weed stores

https://www.crimesummit.org/


NYC Assemblyman Blames CVS & Victims For Recidivist Shoplifters at Crime Summit
NYPD chief Jeffrey Maddrey applauded for pushing back against pro-bail reform lawmaker
The audience at a Manhattan anti-crime summit burst into applause Thursday when a top police official pushed back against a state lawmaker who defended New York's controversial bail reform law and accused cops of not making enough arrests.

NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey appeared upset when Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (D-The Bronx) alleged that many cops "have the attitude" that bail reform would put anyone they busted right back on the streets.

When given a chance to fire back, Maddrey pointed to statistics about repeat offenders cited earlier by the moderator of their Manhattan Chamber of Commerce panel discussion.

"Respectfully, assemblyman...there would not be repeat offenders if the officers were not constantly arresting them," Maddrey said to applause.

"So...with all respect to you, I'm not gonna stand here with the notion that my cops are walking away and not making arrests. When we are constantly arresting the same people, I think it proves that we are."

At one point in his remarks, Dinowitz appeared to blame the victims of some recidivist shoplifters, saying, "I've met with owners in my district of CVS, for example, and they've been repeatedly victimized, and we know that. And I asked, and they have not necessarily taken the steps that they need to take, even though we know it costs money, and that's not really fair."

"Crime is higher than it was a few years ago...But we can't do what has to be done without resources for the police, for the DAs and to help people and keep them away from crime in the first place." nypost.com


Assemblyman Blames NYPD For Not Making Arrests Because of Catch & Release
In NY's 'conversation on crime,' progressives just refuse to listen
"There is nothing acceptable about individuals walking into stores, taking what they want, walking out and then, when they're arrested for the action, for people to say we are criminalizing the poor; no we're not," Mayor Eric Adams thundered last week. Sadly, though, that's precisely the mindset of the folks writing the laws in this state.

Indeed, at the same Manhattan Chamber of Commerce "Conversation on Crime" event, Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz (D-Bronx) actually blamed the NYPD for not arresting crooks because of the "attitude" that bail reform would put anyone they busted right back on the streets.

That prompted NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey to erupt: It's not that "my cops are walking away and not making arrests" but that "we are constantly arresting the same people," citing the evidence on repeat offenders - cue audience applause.

Progressive Democratic district attorneys, from Albany's David Soares to Staten Island's Michael McMahon, keep slamming the Legislature's recent "reforms" as ensuring that criminals won't pay a price even when caught.

But the lawmakers refuse to listen; they're going to push for more ill-conceived reforms this year, convinced they can bully Hochul into submission should she object.

Until Democratic moderates in the Legislature stand up to this madness, the revolving doors will only spin faster, mainly at the expense of the poor, communities of color, immigrants, women and young people. nypost.com


Soros Funded 75 Progressive Prosecutors Getting Elected
He's the Single-Largest Donor for Democrats Midterm Elections - $129 Million

George Soros spent $40M getting 'progressive' district attorneys, officials elected all over the country
75 prosecutors nationwide who were backed by Soros for their pro-criminal bents. After investing more than $40 million into this project, Soros-backed DAs (and their ideological allies) now represent at least one-fifth of Americans.

That $40 million is a drop in a bucket to the $32 billion that backs his political empire. But by focusing on key local races, Soros is having an outsize impact on people's lives.

Flipping a legislature and changing the law is a lot more daunting than just electing one person who refuses to enforce the law. In many cases, Soros' prosecutors decline to prosecute cases, toss charges or cut lax plea deals - bypassing the statutes on the books.

Policy failures that kill

If the philosophy of progressive policing as advertised really worked, that shifting attention away from lesser offenses would decrease more serious crimes, we wouldn't have seen the national crime wave that began in 2020 and has continued to this day, and it wouldn't be especially pronounced in the exact cities following this philosophy.

Soros has spent millions backing these extreme criminal justice philosophies, but neither he nor the prosecutors he has backed have any regrets about the increases in property crime, disorder or even murder.

The numbers of young men, particularly black and Hispanic young men, who have been murdered in places like Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore in the years since "Defund the police," "No bail" and "Raise the age" laws went into effect have skyrocketed. Have they no shame? nypost.com


TX Introduce Bills to Reign in or Boot Out Progressive DAs
Texas Republicans vow to crack down on 'rogue' prosecutors - here's why
Texas Republicans are targeting prosecutors who they say refuse to enforce laws against certain offenses - a move that could limit prosecutorial discretion and could force progressive district attorneys and county attorneys to get tougher on crime.

Identical bills introduced in the House and Senate would empower state Attorney General Ken Paxton to take civil action against a prosecutor who adopts a policy to limit the enforcement of any criminal offense. The legislation lets Paxton pursue a fine of $1,000 or more and to seek the prosecutor's removal from office. However, he would have no authority to pursue criminal action.

House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, began the legislative session last week by threatening to rein in "rogue" prosecutors, echoing comments he made from last fall. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick also says he wants to limit prosecutorial discretion, and Gov. Greg Abbott says he wants to end certain bail practices and to adopt mandatory minimum sentences for offenses involving firearms and for smuggling immigrants. usatoday.com


San Francisco's Drug Abuse Crisis Shows No Signs of Abating
San Francisco's Mid-Market Post Pandemic is Empty Stores - Crime & Homelessness Fueled by the Drug Crisis
It's not just the lack of office workers that are plaguing Mid-Market businesses. Like others, Haas says that his biggest challenge is just getting customers to come to the neighborhood. With Market Street closed to traffic and little parking in the area, fewer and fewer customers want to brave walking the streets, especially at night.

In his opinion, the neighborhood's problems with crime and homelessness stem from a drug abuse crisis, which is being poorly handled. So far, he says, the solution has been to push people from street to street. "What's the plan?" He asks of our city officials.

Haas is a fourth-generation San Franciscan who opened the business in 2019, lured by the promise of heavy foot traffic from neighboring offices. Post-pandemic, he says he's never seen Mid-Market in such bad shape.

It's not just the lack of office workers that are plaguing Mid-Market businesses. Like others, Haas says that his biggest challenge is just getting customers to come to the neighborhood. With Market Street closed to traffic and little parking in the area, fewer and fewer customers want to brave walking the streets, especially at night.

The open-air drug market in front of his store persisted, and it took him six to eight months to get the drug dealers to move, with little help from the police. Where did the dealers relocate to? Down the block, to an empty storefront. sfexaminer.com


Social Media Fueled Atlanta Violent Protest
 - "Police killed a protester. Stand up. Fight back."

Violent protest in downtown Atlanta over killing of activist
A protest turned violent Saturday night in downtown Atlanta in the wake of this week's killing by law enforcement officers of an environmental activist who had shot a state trooper, according to officials.

Masked protesters dressed in black threw rocks and lit fireworks in front of a skyscraper that houses the Atlanta Police Foundation, shattering windows. They lit a police cruiser on fire, smashed more windows and vandalized walls with anti-police graffiti as stunned tourists scattered.

The violent protesters were a subsection of hundreds who had gathered and marched up Atlanta's famed Peachtree Street to mourn the death of the 26-year-old, a nonbinary person who went by the name Tortuguita and used they/it pronouns.

Tortuguita was killed Wednesday as authorities cleared a small group of protesters from the site of a planned public safety training center that activists have dubbed "Cop City."

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has said Tortuguita was killed by officers after shooting and injuring a state trooper, but activists have questioned officials' version of the events, calling the killing a "murder" and demanding an independent investigation.

According to the GBI, the incident was not recorded on body cameras. The bureau said Friday that it determined that the trooper was shot in the abdomen by a bullet from a handgun that was in Tortuguita's possession.

Word of Saturday's protest had been widely circulated on social media and among leftist activists; fliers were distributed that read: "Police killed a protester. Stand up. Fight back."

Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said during a news conference that authorities made six arrests Saturday and recovered explosive devices after protesters damaged property along Peachtree Street, a corridor of hotels and restaurants. He said authorities halted the violence within two blocks, and no citizens or law enforcement officers were injured.

The GBI said about 25 campsites were located and removed in Wednesday's raid, and mortar-style fireworks, edged weapons, pellet rifles, gas masks and a blow torch were recovered. latimes.com


America's Mass Shooting Epidemic Continues
10 Killed - 10 Injured - Suspect Dead After Latest Mass Shooting in California

Monterey Park, Calif. mass shooting: Gunman identified, confirmed dead
Ten people were killed, and another 10 were injured in a mass shooting late Saturday in Monterey Park following a Lunar New Year celebration that attracted thousands. According to authorities, at approximately 10:22 p.m., officers from the Monterey Park police department responded to a "shots fired" call at a dance studio in Monterey Park.

Preliminary information indicated the suspected gunman was an Asian male, said Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna at a news briefing Sunday. He said the dead included five females and five males. Sheriff Luna said he didn't have information on the victims' ages. He added that investigators were still trying to determine a possible motive.

Sources have confirmed to CBS News that the suspect has died. According to the sources, it appears the suspect shot and killed himself inside the van which was the subject of an armed standoff with Torrance police on Hawthorne and Sepulveda Boulevards, next to the Del Amo Mall.

Armored tanks - and a bomb squad - descended upon the white van in Torrance, Calif. before noon local time, in what became a more than hour-long standoff. Just before 1 p.m. local time, a SWAT team opened the passenger door of the vehicle, and then the side doors. Photos showed a man slumped over in the driver's seat. nypost.com cbsnews.com wsj.com


Chase Bank ATM's in NYC Closing early over 'rising crime' and 'vagrancy'
"You get a homeless person taking a crap or someone committing a crime, putting in a skimmer. It gets to be too much work," said John Weilbaker, president of NewYorkATM.com

Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, warned, "When a major bank like Chase is closing ATMs early or limiting access because of crime, it's about time that Albany acts. We know retail is getting crushed by crime and now banks are worried about their customers. Lax policies, dumb laws, DAs that don't prosecute, and incompetent politicians, are doing their best to usher in the 1990s." nypost.com


ORC's 'Most Wanted' List Makes Dozens of News Outlets Across the Country Saturday
Organized retail thieves' most-wanted list: Survey reveals which items are most likely to be stolen from stores
 

US: 103.8M Cases - 1.1M Dead - 100.9M Recovered
Worldwide: 673.3M Cases - 6.7M Dead - 644.9M Recovered

Private Industry Security Guard Deaths: 362  
Law Enforcement Officer Deaths: 828

 
The Tripledemic Threat Never Materialized
Covid, flu, RSV declining in hospitals as ‘tripledemic’ threat fades
Doctors braced for a dire winter — a looming disaster some dubbed a “tripledemic” — with flu season revving up, coronavirus roaring back and the holidays providing fuel for viruses to spread.

But no such surge materialized. The RSV wave has receded in Connecticut and across the country. Flu cases have rapidly dwindled. Covid hospitalizations rose briefly after Christmas, only to fall again.

“We are seeing the normal busy, but not the very busy that I thought we would see,” said Juan Salazar, physician in chief at Connecticut Children’s in Hartford. “I’m just so pleased we are now able to be back to normal staffing. Busy staffing, but not anything near to what we saw in the fall.”

It turns out that early waves of respiratory syncytial virus and influenza peaked before the new year, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the expected winter uptick of coronavirus is nowhere close to overwhelming hospitals, as it did in 2021 when covid wards were filled with unvaccinated people struggling to breathe and last winter when the highly transmissible omicron variant ignited a massive wave of illness. washingtonpost.com


Remote Working Hitting Big Cities
D.C. Mayor to Biden: Your Teleworking Employees Are Killing My City

Washington has the highest work-from-home rate of any major city. With an empty downtown, the city faces a real risk of economic peril.

At the swearing-in this month for her third term as the District of Columbia’s mayor, Muriel Bowser delivered a surprising inaugural-address ultimatum of sorts to the federal government: Get your employees back to in-person work — or else vacate your lifeless downtown office buildings so we can fill the city with people again.

Bowser’s demand amounted to telling the boss of a lot of her constituents — a good chunk of whom appear to like remote work — to force staff back to the office.

Being a person who residents blame when they have to start commuting again — let alone being a blue-city Democrat who makes strange bedfellows with GOP ultras — is the sort of thing usually avoided by a pol skilled enough to win a landslide third term as mayor, as Bowser just did.

But the way the local government sees it, something has to give or else the city is in deep trouble. politico.com


China still grappling with COVID surge as Lunar New Year celebrations kick off

Ron DeSantis pushes for sweeping protections against COVID mandates in Florida

Pickets Coming Feb 4th & 22nd - How Close Are Your Stores? Collaboration is key
Are CVS and Walgreens prepared to be at the center of the abortion debate?
CVS and Walgreens have both begun the certification process to sell abortion pills under a new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation that will allow the medication to be offered by retail pharmacies for the first time. Not unsurprisingly, the backlash has begun.

Anti-abortion groups are calling on people to protest and boycott their local CVS or Walgreens locations in response to the companies' plans to seek approval to dispense mifepristone, which is used with misoprostol to induce an abortion.

Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising is organizing picketing outside of CVS and Walgreens locations in over a dozen cities, including Washington, D.C., Detroit, and Akron, Ohio, on Feb. 4 in hopes of reversing the companies' plans to carry abortion medication, a method that accounted for roughly half of all abortions in the U.S. in 2021.

Faith-based 40 Days for Life has also announced plans to hold vigils and demonstrations at CVS and Walgreens locations across the country beginning Feb. 22, including areas where abortion providers might have closed their doors due to restrictive state laws.

We want people to be uncomfortable going into a CVS that has a demonstration going on and to consider going to a different pharmacy,” Caroline Smith, a leader of the group Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, told Politico. “We also want to put enough pressure on the companies to retract this decision and not get certified to sell abortion pills.”

Risks also include backlash from staff. A nurse practitioner in Texas recently filed a federal lawsuit against CVS after she was fired for refusing to prescribe birth control, citing her “Christian faith.”  washingtonexaminer.com


Could Last Year's Baby Formula Shortage Been Avoided?

First of Four Whistleblower Complaints Warned FDA & Abbott 1 Yr. Before Deadly Baby Formula Outbreak
Last years deadly infant-formula bacteria outbreak - Abbott's recall & plant shut down impacted millions & Caused the shortage

Abbott Under Federal Criminal Investigation Over Deadly Baby Formula
The DOJ is investigating conduct at the Abbott Laboratories infant-formula plant in Sturgis, Mich., that led to its shutdown last year and worsened a nationwide formula shortage, and one of the biggest manufacturers of $4B baby formula industry (Similac, Alimentum and EleCare formulas).

Abbott Laboratories and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were notified about possible problems at an Abbott plant in Sturgis, Mich., in February 2021.

The revelation is potentially damaging in that it suggests officials knew about possible problems at the plant much earlier than previously known.

A whistleblower repeatedly warned, Abbott and the FDA of possible issues with the Sturgis plant in February 2021, a year before it was shut down, and in October 2021. The complaint said formula was being distributed without proof of safety and that some equipment involved in producing it needed to be fixed.

FDA inspection on January 31, 2022, found evidence of unsanitary conditions at the plant and that multiple strains of bacteria that can be deadly to infants were present in the facility.

Abbott’s internal records indicated environmental contamination with cronobacter and that the company had destroyed product due to its presence, an FDA review found.

Abbott spokeswoman said to the Wall Street Journal that the four complaints came between September 2021 and January 2022. wsj.com wsj.com thehill.com

Editor's Note: If the DOJ consumer protection group finds a smoking gun, somebody's going to jail. Just like the Peanut Corporation of America CEO who got 28 years in prison - the stiffest sentence ever in a food safety case.


Consensus: Something will be Enacted
How Should Employers Respond to Proposal to Ban Noncompete Agreements?
Backlash to the rule has begun. Some experts argue that the agency has overstepped its authority, while others say the agreements are an important tool in fostering innovation and preserving competition.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)—which is preparing a formal comment for submission to the FTC—believes the agency should differentiate between agreements designed to limit labor market mobility and those designed to protect confidential trade secrets or strategic planning.

"The broadly drafted regulation would jeopardize the ability of HR practitioners to require the repayment of education or training benefits; it would also endanger the use of nondisclosure and nonsolicitation clauses," SHRM said.

If adopted, it would not become effective for at least 240 days, and then it is likely to be met with legal challenges. But experts say that whether the rule is adopted or not, employers should be prepared to act on the issue this year.

"And after the recent FTC enforcement actions, companies should think carefully about whom they give noncompetes to," he said. "Revisit your use of noncompetes to see if they are necessary. Ask yourself, 'Is the noncompete necessary to protect legitimate business interests?' Can you protect yourself with a less burdensome covenant, such as a customer nonsolicit or a confidentiality agreement?"

The FTC is accepting public comments through March 6. shrm.org

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Workplace Discrimination & AI
Artificial Intelligence Takes Center Stage at EEOC
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently released draft its new Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP), outlining its priorities in tackling workplace discrimination the next four years.

The playbook, published in the Federal Register in January, indicates that the agency will be on the lookout for discrimination caused by artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

According to the EEOC, technology that can result in discrimination may include:

• Software that incorporates algorithmic decision-making or machine learning.
• Automated recruitment, selection, or production and performance management tools.
• Other existing or emerging technological tools used in employment decisions. shrm.org
 

Facebook Offices & Amazon Tower Offices Pulling Out of Downtown Seattle
Nike is closing a flag ship in downtown as well. And parts of downtown can still sometimes feel like the set for a zombie film, with sparse crowds, vacant storefronts and, lately, a lot of downbeat news.

Five Below to open 200+ stores & convert 400 to higher-price format

Target to open 23 stores in 2023

Dollar Stores Are the ‘Fastest-Growing’ Food Retailers In US, Study Finds

Discount Retailer Tuesday Morning Nears Another Bankruptcy
 

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Last week's #1 article --

Deadly Kroger Shooting: The Security Impact
Columbus Kroger shooting impacting shoppers and those in private security
Scary moments for customers and workers at a west side Kroger as gunfire rang out in the supermarket. Police are investigating after they said a security officer shot and killed 26-year-old Paris Royal during an altercation Sunday about 6:45 p.m.

Dean Boerger trains security officers through his company Strategic Training Group. Boerger tells us the case will likely have an impact on those in the profession. “Nobody wants to take anybody’s life or be in that kind of situation where they have to make that kind of decision,” said Boerger.

“I think it has a big impact on whether other security officers feel that they may be prepared for that kind of a situation, able to handle that kind of situation appropriately and effectively,” said Boerger.

Boerger said the incident points to the need to increase the 20-hour course required for security officers to carry a firearm. With more gun violence, Boerger said security officers are on heightened awareness. abc6onyourside.com