its kinda been a double edged sword really, on one hand now its regulated by the SIA( recently scrapped in the PM`s cull on quango`s) you cannot get a door/security/cctv license if you have any convictions for assault/gbh/drugs etc so thats helped with forcing a lot of the old bruisers out and replacing them with better trained, less violent staff
On the other side of the story, one of the things our company specialises in is going in and sorting out clubs/pubs/towns etc that have been allowed to be taken over by dealers an thugs etc, and unfortunately for them jobs you need the old bruisers to get ANYTHING moving, the younger lads just havent got the stones to go up against major gangsters etc
im a pub manager as my day job and go round sorting out problem pubs for the brewery( drugs/gangs etc) and we take our own doorstaff with us to each pub, last friday we had a problem with the pikeys mouthing off in the pub n stealing drinks off ppl, our older doorstaff had no problems going straight over there an telling em to behave or they would be out, 1 of em tried giving it the big i am to the bouncer an 2mins later was outside on the pavement bleeding, ya wont get that from the younger lads i tell ya