Security establishment in north american society is increasing anyways. I always will remember a policy of being more open by a government department heard at a meeting I attended one day.

Shortly after the glass barriers went up between the public and employees of that dept that interacted with them. This then seemed to spread like wildfire became obvious.I actually used a little humour about it later at a later meeting.

I am not even sure if there was true justification or not. Perhaps the more rational component of society is less than it was or people are more extreme on average when upset. Hard to say. Are thinks really gettting that much worse out there? Or are a few random events just driving things?

I seriously try to not let my age color too many opinions. Yet if nothing else overall it is not a gentler population in my opinion than it was and may be worse moving forward. I think some of those glass barriers where more proactive perhaps than anything. That they have been required for some time now is fairly certain.