The number of private security guards — nearly 1.1 million — dwarfs the 640,000 public police officers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While the numbers have increased, training ...

"There are about 7,000 agents who are providing all types of armed security at places like banks, shopping centers, stores and other places." ...

Johns Hopkins President Ron Daniels has frequently cited the “brazenness” of crime as justification for a private police force at JHU, but even more brazen is Hopkins’ disingenuous PR campaign.

Our organizing began in 2018, when the university wrote and lobbied for a bill that would authorize the creation of a private police force to patrol not just campus but the surrounding communities.

But let’s be clear: Universities without private police forces are not spared from the horrors of police brutality. Partnerships with local police are also bringing unwanted publicly funded officers ...

Three years after protests erupted at the Johns Hopkins University over its plan to create a private police force, some opponents are promising disruptions to upcoming town hall meetings and ...

Dennis Benigno, a former police officer, founded Street Cop Training in 2012. His private training company instructs roughly 25,000 officers a year in departments across the country.

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on private patrols and racial inequities in policing. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I am a white woman living in an overwhelmingly white, low-crime neighborhood. My ...

The stop was routine police work, except for one fact: Youlen is not a Manassas officer. The citation came courtesy of the private force he created that, until recently, he called the “Manassas ...

Michael Youlen stopped a driver in a Manassas, Virginia, apartment complex on a recent night and wrote the man a ticket for driving on a suspended license. With a badge on his chest and a gun on hi… ...