Press
Everything written about us, including the parts we did not write.
Two Rapid City television stations, a Sturgis radio station and one long-form interview. That is the entire press record — 5 items, all of them here, none of them ours.
On the record
What the reporter was told
The KOTA segment covered our contracts at Press Start, Paddy’s, Murphy's and Aby’s. Both quotes below are from that report.
“I have seen a major cutback in weapons coming into the bar. I have seen a major step up in the community of respecting us and actually caring about people's safety.”
Judge Hutto
Manager, Press Start
KOTA Territory News, 26 March 2024 ↗“We have been able in the last two almost three years of operation to cut calls to the RCPD at our locations by an average of 75%.”
Rockwell Peterson
Owner / Operator, Odin’s Gate Guards
KOTA Territory News, 26 March 2024 ↗On the 75% figure: that is our owner’s own count of how far calls to police at our contracted locations had fallen, given to a reporter in March 2024 and qualified in the original as coming from a conversation with the department. The Rapid City Police Department has not published a figure of its own, and this site does not present it as theirs.
Broadcast
Segments
KOTA Territory News · Adrian Carbajal
Odin’s Gate Guards security working to keep Downtown Rapid City safe
Covers the downtown contracts at Press Start, Paddy’s, Murphy's and Aby’s, the free patrolling between them, the safe-ride service and background-check work for Black Hills businesses.
Watch at the source ↗Black Hills Fox (KEVN)
Odin’s Gate Guards security working to keep Downtown Rapid City safe
Second Rapid City station's coverage of the downtown security work.
Watch at the source ↗KOTA Territory News
How to spot and report suspicious activity
Rockwell Peterson on what ordinary people should look for and how to report it.
Watch at the source ↗Aspen Uprooted
Rockwell Peterson with Odin’s Gate Guards
Long-form interview with the owner about how the company started.
Watch at the source ↗
Print and radio
Written coverage
KBHB Radio, Sturgis · Francie Ganje
October 12, 2023
Company offers free rides to EAFB airmen
The safe-ride program in detail: an hourly shuttle between downtown Rapid City and Ellsworth Air Force Base, free to airmen with military ID, started in response to rising DUIs. Published under the Viking Brothers name.
Media inquiries
Reporters, call the owner directly.
There is no press office. Rockwell Peterson takes media calls himself.