Bouncers Publication

A lot of the bad online reviews of clubs were related to bouncers being overly aggressive, immoral or discriminative. The idea of creating a publication about bouncers brings out a lot of ideas because there can be a moral theme and concept as opposed to just having funny quotes in a book. The content of the book could include bad club reviews, stories from peers who have experienced inappropriate behaviour from bouncers first hand or even news reports of extreme cases. In order to really bring home the overall message, a foreword and/or conclusion could be added.

This publication would mostly appeal to students and young adults who have encountered situations like this and can relate to them.

Bouncers have a clear set of rules about what they’re aloud to do which vary between different countries, so it would be interesting to focus in on the rules in the united kingdom and find examples of bouncers deviating from them. 

Bouncers are legally allowed to perform such tasks as:

• Issue verbal warnings
• Ask you to leave
• Check for ID
• Refuse entry if the customer is too intoxicated, fails to comply with establishment policies, or engages in aggressive behaviour
• Call the police
• Protect innocent bystanders from violence
• Break up fights they are not involved in
• Respond with equal force if necessary

Bouncers are not entitled to engage in the use of force unless they are first threatened with physical harm.

Thus, unless they are approached with physical threats of harm, bouncers are not permitted to:

• Strike a patron with a punch or kick
• Push or physically throw a person out of the establishment
• Restrain them in a chokeholds or other techniques

Figuring out the message which will be imparted by the publication is important; obviously a lot of bouncers do stick by these rules and do there jobs very professionally however the role of a bouncer has gained this stigma of them being aggressive and unreasonable. This stigma has likely come about from the drunk ‘victims’ either creating stories like this or over exaggerating stories, also a lot of the time the people bouncers deal with are the ones who are in the wrong, but does this justify the use of such heavy force every time? Some of the messages explored could be one of the following:

• Do bouncers do more harm then good? Should their training in methods like verbal communication be promoted more and should the requirements for the job be more rigorous in order to minimise the amount of people in the job who are breaking rules. 
• Should the book take a more satirical approach, bringing up bad stories and reports and almost comically stating how bouncers are in the wrong and need to be put in check. This would appeal to students a lot as that is their general opinion.