'Do police and hired security have a place in live music? Or is the community of fans, artists, venues, and presenters better able to keep itself safe?' | LeadholmKira
. And perhaps most obviously, the presence of police or security is usually a given at all but the smallest licensed music venues.
“Pretty much every time I’ve been through Reggies—and you know, this could be coincidental, maybe it’s not—but it’s Black artists, specifically, that I’ve had bad experiences with,” he says. Communication, the manager says, can prevent some of these issues. “What makes for great security is when they’re communicative,” he says. “When there’s an effort on security’s side to understand who the personnel is.”For music venues, heeding the call to dismantle white supremacist systems of policing has meant adopting measures to keep all patrons, artists, and staff safe—specifically those of color.Metro has received similar criticism, though not for being silent at the wrong time.
In response to a particularly bad experience with security at Metro in 2013, K.D. took to Facebook to tell her story. The post received comments from four or five friends, she says, who’d had similar experiences. Other venues used the protests as an opportunity to revise their approach to concert safety. In summer 2020, Schubas Tavern in Lakeview circulated a list of alternatives to calling the police among staff and posted safety information around the venue. The safety info is still up today, and the staff list remains in force.
“We’re refining and expanding our internal training practices for every employee and equipping our managers with the tools to lead recurring pre-shift training and discussion sessions with staff on various topics like bystander intervention and the avenues available for reporting workplace harassment,” Apodaca writes in an email. He also says the venue will continue to do everything in its power to ensure patron safety at its concerts.
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