Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Private or contract policing came to the United States along with the early settlers.
2. Some of the security companies that have names familiar to most people today were established in the 1900s.
3. The first set of federal standards for modern private security operations were not developed until 2004.
4. In the early 1900s, William Burns, the head of the Bureau of Investigation, Secret Service (the forerunner of the Federal Bureau of Investigation), founded a detective agency and named it after his wife, Therdigry Burns.
5. In the 1960s and 1970s, loss prevention became less of a focus for private security firms.


1. True
2. False
3. False
4. False
5, False

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