@!sinner69! 446429 wrote:
3. as for the security; they have a big lack of clear information brought out to the public. The lack of easy understood info just make more confusion for both guards and the guests….
Also in the UK there aren’t enough festivals or events now to keep a security firm going on this business alone – so what you have nowadays are a mixture of guards with experience at music events, and your bog-standard rentaguard you would encounter in a shopping centre.
The second kind (although to be fair there are exceptions) aren’t always clued up about the music and drugs scene, and often have a negative view of drugs use because even many party drugs users who aren’t addicts do seem to go through a stage of impulsive behaviour including shoplifting and anti-social behavior in public, which of course brings them to notice of conventional security staff. So naturally these staff think “drugs are bad” and work with the Police.
Another recent factor is the Licensing Authority and the Police often have more input on what security firm is used than the organisers – again this is to prevent collusion and large amounts of drugs being brought onto site during the event.
so a big reason these guards are more “aggressive” than before at large festival events is because people keep shouting on forums and even to local and national newspaper comments that its easy to get drugs into them, and/or how fucked they got there – and the Police and Licensing read this and demand more controls or the event simply doesn’t happen.
Drugs are controlled the world over whether we like it or not. If we don’t like it we should be campaigning on the political front rather than making short term attempts to buck the system, especially when drug users remain a minority globally.
