In many markets, there may be two security companies that you can hire because they've acquired so many other companies. If neither of them are particularly effective, you might end up just bouncing back and forth between them. People want this sense that someone is going to protect them even if it's a false sense of security,. They want to hire someone to do that. But allied does have some problems just in that they have a lot of court cases pending against them. There has been an attack on the public transit system in Miami within minutes of each other. The guard who attacked him was fired from his job at a corrections institute shortly afterwards. He claims he should have been more vigilant following several attacks