A group of Temple University parents have hired private security to patrol campus due to gun violence concerns in Philadelphia. MattPetrillo reports.
Gun violence concerns have extended to Philadelphia’’s college campuses. Parents who send their kids to college may expect to help them with tuition, books, and rent.Private security isn’t cheap. The mother who organized the private security at Temple says it’s costing more than $1,000 a month.“My husband and I put our heads together and thought what could we do right now,” Jennifer Hedberg, the mother of a Temple student, said.
So, she and a small group of parents have now hired JNS Protection Services. The private security company now patrols by car and by foot five days a week, through the end of the semester.Rideshare Driver Injured From Graze Wound After At Least 12 Shots Riddled His SUV In Fairmount: Philadelphia Police“We’re there to help,” Jasmine Jackson, the CEO of LNS Protection services, said. “Were there to work together with them so that crime can cease.
JNS’ patrol area stretches from Diamond to Berks Streets, between 15th and 19th Streets. Temple’s own campus safety patrols most of the same area as well.“They are hiring, they’re vetting they’re training these new candidates, but we have the need right now,” she said.The Temple mom who initiated hiring the private security says she has about 10 parents pitching in to pay for it.
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