Spotlight on private security: Some neighborhoods use private guards with Baltimore short on officers
Some Baltimore neighborhoods have hired private security to help reduce crime given that city police are short hundreds of officers.
These private security forces are in the spotlight following a shooting in Harbor East on Friday. That’s when an armed guard in Harbor East shot a suspected shoplifter in the face.
Hero security guard runs in to save boy from machete attack outside school
A heroic school security guard saved a teen after he intervened to stop a gang of machete-wielding thugs from beating him outside a school.
Distressing footage of the incident, which was captured and posted online, shows a group of nine young men, including one armed with a massive machete, kicking and hitting a boy in school uniform on the ground.