Shopping Center Security Plan to Prevent Teen Crowds and Fights

* How to anticipate when large crowds might descend on a mall?
* How to develop a security plan for teen crowd control?
* How to plan for an emergency response to social disorder?

Interview with Shopping Centers Today magazine.
Contributing Editor Steve McLinden.

Podcast Time Stamps:

-- Shopping Center Security - Topic introduction crowd control.
-- Thousands of youths descend on malls and cause violence.
-- Interview with Shopping Centers Today Magazine Steve McLinden.
-- How can shopping center security prevent crowd violence?
-- What factors affect shopping center security and crowd violence?
-- Is social media a cause of sudden teen crowds and mob violence?
-- Mall managers must focus on anti-loitering rule enforcement.
-- Shopping Center Security training on loitering behavior response.
-- Mall managers must include a security and police response plan.
-- Shopping Center Security curfew for teens been tried and failed.
-- Mall managers need more shopping center security plan training.
-- Shopping Center industry needs emphasis on security planning.

Play video of Kentucky incident.

Shopping Center Security Challenge of Crowd Control

* Definition: Retail REIT - Shopping Center Real Estate Investment Trust.
* Teens hanging out at malls is an old problem with a new twist.
* Social media has driven large groups of teens to gather at malls.
* A single Tweet or Facebook post can direct teens to a mall hot spot.
* Social media is used to plan unorganized social disorder rallies.
* Teens arrive quickly like flash-mobs and overwhelm security and police.

Evalulate then Execute a Comprehensive Security Plan

* Evaluate trends in traffic patterns and prior incidents of violence.
* Compare recent incidents trends in similar malls in the region.
* Evaluate mall procedures and responses by mall security and police.
* Evaluate patterns of teen loitering by day, time, and location.
* Partner with police to develop a plan to enforce loitering and trespassing.
* Being vigilant against known teen groups that loiter and disturb.
* Issue and enforce trespass warnings against know troublemakers.
* Strict loitering standards and enforcement prevent future incidents.
* Comprehensive security plan needs to anticipate and respond to crowd.
* Monitor social media mentions that advocate social disorder at malls.
* Seek training how to anticipate and respond to teen disturbances.

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