There has been a huge increase in the number of businesses reporting extortion attempts by drug cartels in Mexico.

Auburn spent approximately $75,000 for a security firm to conduct curfew checks of football players last season.

Some Detroit neighborhoods are doing their part to keep crime under control.

Take a look back at the London Olympics' security woes -- the successes, failures and lessons to be learned from the event's use of private security officers. 

Twenty neighborhoods in Atlanta and at least four in Detroit have hired private guards to patrol after municipal services are being cut because of financial and economic problems. 

ASIS International's Management System for Quality of Private Security Company Operations – Requirements with Guidance standard received ANSI approval today.

ASIS International has been awarded a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop an ANSI standard that provides principles and requirements for a quality assurance management system for private sector security organizations to abide by and demonstrate accountability to internationally recognized norms of civil and human rights while providing quality assurance in the provision of their products and services.

Private security guards protecting the Social Security Administration were found napping, watching television, chatting with co-workers, talking for hours on the phone and failing to examine identification badges at checkpoints, according to a report.