Security Officers' are First Responders too.

     With all the hoopla, and deep concern over COVID-19 or Da Rona. Everybody, and I mean, EVERYBODY, health is at risk. You, and people around you, can die. Die I said. Dead. Gone. Outta here. Finite. No coming back to protest your State house crying about re-opening the city. Since 9/11, Mass shootings at schools, and 10/1 in Vegas. The Police, Nurses, Doctors, Paramedics, Firefighters, and Medical Assistants of all types, are in the hospitals and streets, taking care of people more than ever. Doing their jobs as essential employees. As First Responders. My question is, "Where's the acknowledgment and respect for Security Officers that are doing their jobs as First Responders?"

     Security Officers/Professionals are First Responders. We are essential employees. Do not misunderstand me, I am not "hating" or "talking shit" in any kinda way. I am bringing to light what most of you refuse to see. All the talk about Police, Firefighters and Medical personnel, you forget that Security Officers are out there too, getting abused, maimed, or killed. Wherever there is a business, there is at least one Security Officer watching over that property and products. Making sure that the certain types of Las Vegans don't fuck with what not theirs.

     We're the First line of defense for whatever company or gub' ment lobby the general public walks into? When the public show up to speak with someone in the back (Director, Manager, Supervisor). Who you think gets all the attention and attitude from them first? Security.

Has anybody given a thought about who sits in the lobbies of hospitals, offices, courthouses, or dispensaries? Security.

When the people in the "back" make the public mad. Who do you think they continue to take it out on? Security.

They go on and on and on, and all we can do is take it. And, take it we do because that's the job. Security Professionals are First Responders, even if you won't admit it. In all cases, we are the ones there as the primary when something serious happens. We make the calls. We fill out those reports. We are questioned and ask to view the cameras, if available.

     From before, COVID-19 or Da Rona has given Security Professionals more work due to the state shut down. Believe it or not, we are working harder due to certain people are finding this as an opportunity to invade other people's property. With Nevada being in a Fiscal State of Emergency there will probably more knuckleheads for First Responders, Security Officers like myself, to prevent from invading your home/businesses.

Two Guards at an ICE Detention Center With a Major Coronavirus Outbreak Have Died

Two guards at Louisiana’s Richwood Correctional Center, where at least 45 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody have tested positive for COVID-19, have died in recent days, according to the local coroner’s office and colleagues’ posts on Facebook.
The Ouachita Parish coroner’s office confirmed both deaths and said that COVID-19 test results are pending. Mother Jones is withholding the men’s names to protect their family’s privacy.
On Facebook, colleagues mourning the deaths pointed to complications from COVID-19 as the cause of death. “We are going through it at Richwood Correctional,” one woman wrote. “2 of my coworkers has passed due to COVID-19 and plenty are infected y’all keep us in your prayers.”
“Prayers for my richwood family need as much as they can get right now!!!!” a second person posted. In response to a comment asking what happened, he wrote, “corona.”

LaSalle Corrections, the private prison company that runs Richwood, has not responded to multiple requests for comment. ICE spokesperson Bryan Cox referred inquiries to LaSalle Corrections, confirming that the two men are not ICE employees.
Richwood has more confirmed COVID-19 cases among people in detention than all but two of ICE’s detention facilities. Across the country, 425 of the 705 people in detention ICE tested had COVID-19, the agency revealed Tuesday. ICE’s 60 percent positive test rate is more than three times higher than the national average, further evidence that ICE is not testing many people who are infected.
Public health experts have been warning for more than a month that outbreaks in immigration detention centers were inevitable if ICE refused to use its power to release large numbers of people. ICE largely ignored those recommendations.