I was just reading a thread on Reddit about how West Ed has their own in-house security team that shuffles or bans loiterers or "undesirables" out of the mall. They can do so on any grounds they really desire since it's their private property, including profiling individuals.
It just made me think - I sort of vaguely recall an event sometime last decade where a man in City Center Mall was racially profiled in the old food court and asked to leave, despite not having done anything. Ever since, I feel like there was a swift reaction for security to basically never do anything remotely media worthy, which I think has made mall security ineffective for fear of retribution (for better or worse).
Do you think CCM would be better off adopting a WEM style policy? I mean, allegedly WEM even has their own holding cells for problematic individuals (thefts, vandalism, etc.) where they are held until EPS deals with them. Of course, WEM pulls in far more money and is a major tourist attraction but it just seems like any mall, particularly CCM, should do better to protect its own investments and stores by properly training and paying an actual security team, and taking a little risk in liability.
