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Violent crime fell more than 9% in 2025, but public concern remains widespread.
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Nearly 7 in 10 Americans say they worry at least a fair amount about crime and violence.
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An October 2025 Gallup poll found that nearly half of Americans believed national crime had increased in the past year.
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At the same time, a series of high-profile attacks has kept corporate security concerns front and center.
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Luigi Mangione just pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges and admitted in open court to killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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In 2024, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot in Midtown Manhattan.
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In 2025, four people were killed after a gunman opened fire in a New York office tower housing the NFL
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and several major financial companies.
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The following year, a man was arrested for for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home
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and threatening the company's headquarters.
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When the CEO of UnitedHealthcare was gunned down in the street in New York City,
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I think all of a sudden corporations realized that the need to protect high-value personnel is important.
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And so that's a growth area.
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Security back when we started was a budget item that you wanted to get rid of.
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Today, it's never coming out of our budget.
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How do we reduce that budget?
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Upwards of two-thirds of security guards are earning a pay that classifies them as low-wage workers.
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The training and pay
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and labor standards of the job have not kept up with the increasing responsibilities and riskiness of the job.
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The private security industry saw revenue top $50 billion in 2025.
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It's seen a 17% increase over the last decade.
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Half of the security professionals surveyed said their budgets increased to year over year, with the average increase being 12%.
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A separate analysis found that high-profile incidents and increased public threats against executives were major drivers of that shift.
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So has this increased need for private security created a new opportunity for the industry?
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So obviously the police handle violent crime, but a private security industry has been growing that operates parallel to the police in a lot of ways.
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About 40% of S&P 500 firms are spending on executive protection, including Walmart and TJ Maxx's parent company.
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Those companies' median spend has more than doubled since 2019.
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At the center of that market is Allied Universal, a company many Americans encounter without realizing its scale.
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Allied Universal is by far the largest guarding company in the world, right?
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800,000 employees, we're everywhere.
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provided hundreds of security personnel to this year's World Cup.
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Even though it's not publicly traded, Allied Universal operates in more than 100 countries.
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It provides security services to a wide range of businesses, including data centers, airports, the New York Theater District,
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and public transportation such as the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.
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When the guarding has a client, they need something a little bit more aggressive.
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Maybe it's a visual deterrent, maybe they want an armed presence, maybe they want an and off duty officer, that's where we fit in.
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Alongside the two of us, Allied has the technology services business, surveillance, cameras, drone detection, counter drone detection.
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So they are the technology piece.
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Allied Universal has grown to the third largest private employer in
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North America with a reported annual revenue of $16 billion in the region.
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Its canine program is one specialized part of a much larger security operation, which also includes guard services,
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executive protection, and technology-enabled surveillance.
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To see how those capabilities are deployed in the field, I went to the Staten Island Ferry in New York City.
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Allied Universal gave us a controlled demonstration of how one of its canine teams screens a bag.
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Hey, good morning.
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Just need to do a bag screening.
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Yep.
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See.
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See.
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If a dog alerts, now we have to figure out what's in
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that bag and then we will bring the NYPD in to try to determine what's in that bag.
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There's cameras all over this facility.
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It is our employees that are monitoring all those cameras.
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And then we have a large guard presence, as you'll see, and they work in tandem.
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Stay.
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Good girl.
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I visited Allied Universal's canine training facility in Windsor, Connecticut to see how one part of its much larger security operation works.
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Good girl.
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This is basically a really a crawl, walk, run stage, because like I said, the dog is new to this environment, right?
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So it does go through a bit of an acclimation process, and we really introduce the first stages of training to them.
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Seek.
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good girl.
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Overall crime is going down, but you get these high profile kind of incidents and catalysts.
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What that really did, it kind of transformed the legal definition of commercial foreseeability.
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With social media and the media coverage of some of these events that we've had, not only domestically, but globally,
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that's in people's faces 24 seven now and they understand security is something that is required.
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For many companies, that perceived risk becomes urgent once they are directly affected.
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Usually they call us up after they've been a victim of a crime and then say, oh, with all this stuff going on, we finally got hit.
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They say, we already know that story that you read about three weeks ago.
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But companies can face pressure even before an attack reaches their own doorstep.
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You know, incidents that have happened, it is without a doubt foreseeable.
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And once something is foreseeable, that kind of creates a standard of care.
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There's liability, right?
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There's what it takes to get and maintain insurance cover.
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Part of what's so awful about violence is that the costs associated with violence are off the charts.
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So there are estimates from the social science community that say things like the social cost of a homicide,
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A single homicide will be upwards of $15 million.
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Those types of high profile incidents,
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it raises the kind of duty of care of organizations and venues to increase security.
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And so it's really, it's a prerequisite in a lot of situations in order to be able to have insurance.
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That kind of drives the market.
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There's also a labor story here.
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Federal labor data counted almost 1.3 million security guards in the U.S as of May 2025, which is nearly twice the number of police and sheriff's patrol officers.
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The number of security guards has surged more than 16% between 2016 and 2025.
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For comparison, the National Police Force has expanded by around 2% over the same period.
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They are acting as a force multiplier, I think, for public safety organizations.
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They are acting as really eyes and ears on the ground.
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We like to say that often private security officers are the first first responders.
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But the rise in labor may be misleading.
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The total security guard workforce is expected to stay roughly flat through 2034, according to a July 2026 report.
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The report also noted that employers are likely to keep hiring due to high turnover.
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Annual churn in 2024 hit 89% for security guards, above the 66% average seen across private payrolls.
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The report also found that the median salary for a security officer in the U.S is $18.70 an hour, or $36,282 a year.
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The workforce is really the first respondents because they're already on the scene when an event occurs.
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Yet the pay, training, and other labor standards of the job have not kept up with those responsibilities and riskiness of the job.
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This contributes to the high turnover that we're seeing in the industry,
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which means there's less and less experienced workers having to do more risky responsibilities
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in a job that is meant to protect the public.
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Allied Universal said its North American workforce turnover is about half the industry average.
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The company told CNBC it provides employees with onboarding, ongoing education, and specialized training.
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and that pay varies by market, assignment, skills, and union agreements.
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About 20% of its North American employees are union represented.
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Allied Universal says its investments in the workforce also includes AI, analytics, and remote monitoring designed to make security professionals more effective.
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But as those tools take on a larger role, the industry faces a broader question around what AI technology can handle and what still requires a person on site.
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The idea that AI is going to replace security officers just doesn't make sense.
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The fundamental premise in having security is dealing with incidents that are caused by people.
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That's not going to cut it.
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And AI is not going to be able to take the place of a security officer who's trained in de-escalation,
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who's trained about evacuation and what is necessary to best protect the employees and customers at a site.
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Obviously you're always going to need the human element.
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This is a human driven business.
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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição
Esta aula de conversação de nível B2 usa o vídeo “Why Corporate America Is Spending More On Security”. As palavras que mais se repetem: security, Allied, Universal, guard, crime. Este vídeo tem 111 frases e 1458 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 9:42. O falante fala em ritmo natural, cerca de 150 palavras por minuto, próximo de uma conversa do dia a dia. 82% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês; vale a pena estudar o restante antes de começar.
Vocabulário principal deste vídeo
As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:
| Palavra | Pronúncia | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| workforce substantivo | /ˈwɝk.foɹs/ | mão de obra |
| canine adjetivo | /ˈkeɪˌnaɪn/ | canino, canina |
| turnover substantivo | /ˈtɝnoʊvɚ/ | movimento |
| specialize verbo | /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/ | especializar |
| upwards advérbio | /ˈʌpwɚdz/ | para cima |
| homicide substantivo | /ˈhɑ.məˌsaɪ̯d/ | homicídio |
| drone substantivo | /dɹoʊn/ | zangão, zângão |
| median substantivo | /ˈmiː.di.ən/ | mediano, mediana |
| detection substantivo | /dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/ | detecção, deteção |
| surveillance substantivo | /sɚˈveɪ.ləns/ | vigilância |
| classify verbo | /ˈklæs.əˌfaɪ/ | classificar |
| deterrent adjetivo | /dɪˈtɛɹənt/ | dissuasório |
| escalation substantivo | /ˌɛs.kəˈleɪ.ʃən/ | escalada |
| fatally advérbio | /ˈfeɪtəli/ | fatalmente |
| mislead verbo | /mɪsˈliːd/ | desencaminhar |
Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir
| Palavra | Significado |
|---|---|
| figure out verbo | descobrir, deduzir |
| go down verbo | descer |
Frases que vale a pena repetir
Frases curtas e completas do vídeo que você pode usar na conversa do dia a dia:
- Today, it's never coming out of our budget.
- How do we reduce that budget?
- Obviously you're always going to need the human element.
Gramática neste vídeo
As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:
| Estrutura | No vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz | was fatally shot · were killed · was arrested |
| Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora | has kept · have not kept · has grown |
Pronúncia para ficar de olho
O falante usa 8 contrações e formas reduzidas, como we're, doesn't, they're. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.
- Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/, detection /dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/, acclimation /æk.ləˈmeɪ.ʃən/, escalation /ˌɛs.kəˈleɪ.ʃən/, evacuation /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/
- Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: foreseeable /fɔɹˈsi.ə.bəl/, acclimation /æk.ləˈmeɪ.ʃən/, escalation /ˌɛs.kəˈleɪ.ʃən/, prerequisite /pɹiˈɹɛkwəzət/, evacuation /ɪˌvækjuˈeɪʃən/
Como praticar com este vídeo
- Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
- Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
- Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como workforce, canine, turnover.
O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.