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GuardDuck said...
I used to work hospital security and when round and round with administration about the tools we were allowed to carry in order to protect staff, patients and visitors.
They always seemed to feel that 'a hospital is a healing place and we don't equip our staff with weapons'. My counter of 'you use poison to kill cancer, it's not the tool/drug it's how and when it's used fell on deaf ears.
Also on deaf ears was the argument that they were only providing the illusion of safety and security when their policies hamstringed their security staff.
Such illusion was vividly visible last month when the security staff up in Seattle wasn't allowed to intervene in an assault due to policies that limited their usefulness.
Mar 4, 2010, 10:20:21 PM