{"id":271684,"date":"2026-04-17T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/271684\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T00:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:30:11","slug":"northern-california-security-officers-campaign-for-better-wages-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/271684\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern California Security Officers Campaign for Better Wages, Training"},"content":{"rendered":"

By comparison, the San Francisco Police Department requires a 34-week-long Basic Academy training<\/a> and an additional 40-hours of training every two years.<\/p>\n

The lack of training can have dire consequences. In June 2023, a security guard shot and killed 24-year-old Banko Brown<\/a> after police said he shoplifted $14 worth of merchandise. Months after Brown\u2019s death, the state began mandating use-of-force training for security guards. Earlier this year, a security officer shot<\/a> and killed a man in a Tenderloin parking lot.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re the first line of defense,\u201d Person said. \u201cWe\u2019re the ones that respond to emergencies \u2026 but we\u2019re being treated as if we\u2019re not important.\u201d<\/p>\n

The private security industry predominantly employs Black and brown workers, often for substandard wages, officials said. In California, security guards had an annual mean wage of just $21.61<\/a> in 2023. By comparison, police officers have an annual mean wage of $53.74 <\/a>in 2023.<\/p>\n

A Fairfield resident, Person said that with gas and toll prices increasing, every time he commutes to his security work in Richmond, he gets \u201chit in the pocket.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir wages are well below what it takes to really be able to live and provide for their families, yet they\u2019re protecting multi-billion dollar facilities,\u201d Huerta said ahead of Thursday\u2019s rally. \u201cThey\u2019re protecting multi-building dollar companies.\u201d<\/p>\n

KQED\u2019s Eliza Peppel <\/a>contributed to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By comparison, the San Francisco Police Department requires a 34-week-long Basic Academy training and an additional 40-hours of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-271684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}