Regardless of profession – and ESPECIALLY for the disciplines of Healthcare Security, Security, Public Safety, Policing, and other Contact Professional disciplines – if you do not understand people well (with an eye toward leaving them better than you find them and not simply “controlling” them), then you’re an amateur.

You need to step aside and let Professionals take the reigns, for we have the potential for helping our community and society to heal a bit more every day (if we do our job with the intention to help others). If you’re just wanting to exert your authority, control others, push others around, etc., you’re just an asshole. You need to leave the profession.

Our role, if brought alive fully, is to help people, and even contribute to their healing, through the lens of our Protection/Security disciplines.

And if we can’t help or heal people, then let’s, at least, not harm anyone any further.