It's become a booming industry here in recent years, with the largest contractor, Securitas, reporting 25% year-over-year growth since the city's bankruptcy.
Another successful player in the business is Threat Management Center, run by ex-Army paratrooper Dale Brown. His 60-person VIPER force serves a client roster of over 5,000 private citizens and 100 businesses. Altogether, he said, the company brings in about $2 million a year.
"Our goal is to create conditions where violence does not occur," said Brown, who began teaching his own brand of self-defense in the early 1990s. "We deter violent criminal behavior by projecting strength. So our vehicles have all white strobe lights. Our vehicles are black and chrome."
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/43jw33/people-in-detroit-are-hiring-paramilitary-guards-because-theyve-lost-faith-in-government
Another successful player in the business is Threat Management Center, run by ex-Army paratrooper Dale Brown. His 60-person VIPER force serves a client roster of over 5,000 private citizens and 100 businesses. Altogether, he said, the company brings in about $2 million a year.
"Our goal is to create conditions where violence does not occur," said Brown, who began teaching his own brand of self-defense in the early 1990s. "We deter violent criminal behavior by projecting strength. So our vehicles have all white strobe lights. Our vehicles are black and chrome."
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/43jw33/people-in-detroit-are-hiring-paramilitary-guards-because-theyve-lost-faith-in-government
They can't even be trusted to watch the security cameras. An Officer had to tell them that some unsavory people were hanging around our security gates that sworn and civilian staff enter and leave from throughout the day. This was literally a case of... You had one job and you blew it.
