A security guard's job

[sarisataka]

Long long ago I worked security at a hospital. We had strict instructions that unless one of the parties with a hospital patient, we were not to intervene in any incident. We were to call the police and be witnesses.

If we chose to intervene in something between non-patients, we would be fired and be on our own for any legal or civil repercussions.

I can understand why the security guard who saw the attack in New York took no action, he likely is under similar if not stricter conditions. It has been reported he called the police. I did not see that on video, but he may have radioed a dispatcher who called.

That does not explain however why he did not render aid after the attack was over.

[Treefrog]

1. You'd have to be mighty hard-hearted to witness that woman attacked by the large man.

And still do nothing.

[sarisataka]

3. In my case,

I wasn't all that attached to my job so it would have been an easy decision.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Should have ran out and yelled.

I was a nighttime guard at a hospital too back in college. It was a rehab place adjacent to an ER. Was alone at night and my main job was to walk the nurses through the parking ramp. On time on the way back from the ramp, I saw a guy come out a side door carrying a microwave oven, I yelled for him to stop and he yelled back, "I can't, I got to go!" I gave chase and then thought to myself, "Dude, what I am I doing, this guy is running into a bad neighborhood and I am chasing him with a badge on over a microwave, and I am making $8.00 an hour." I stopped and called the police.

But in this case, the guard should/could have ran outside and yelled, 9 out of 10 times that would have stopped the attack.

[sarisataka]

4. That would have been

A minimal action without truly intervening