PA: Female employee goes berserk, kills 2, injures 1

[seamusTX]

The way businesses see things, courtesy officers are not expensive and competent emergency responders are. They usually don't realize that during a serious emergency, the economics of the two approaches reverse until they learn the hard way.

You would think they would have learned by now, because every incident of this sort results in lawsuits and multi-million-dollar settlements.

A company that I am familiar with uses unarmed door monitors, but they also hire at least one off-duty uniformed police officer at a time to be present in case of an emergency that requires police expertise.

The business also gets the police training for free that way.

- Jim

[Excaliber]

The way businesses see things, courtesy officers are not expensive and competent emergency responders are. They usually don't realize that during a serious emergency, the economics of the two approaches reverse until they learn the hard way.

You would think they would have learned by now, because every incident of this sort results in lawsuits and multi-million-dollar settlements.

A company that I am familiar with uses unarmed door monitors, but they also hire at least one off-duty uniformed police officer at a time to be present in case of an emergency that requires police expertise.

The business also gets the police training for free that way.

- Jim

If you dug into how that came to be, you'd probably find that the folks responsible for making it happen have direct experience in managing emergencies and understand the dynamics involved.

Most businesses assign folks who've never met a bad guy and never managed an incident where people were seriously injured or killed to determine how such incidents will be handled in their environment . Predictably, folks who don't understand the problem don't usually come up with very good solutions.