Even though we have made crazy adjustments to airport security after 9/11, airports are obviously still vulnerable to attacks. The shooting at LAX last week is unlikely to change that. Even though it's impossible to get on a plane with a gun or bomb, it is still very possible to be on airport property, like a parking lot, or a bathroom, or a waiting area, and be carrying a weapon. Despite the shooting, "airport security is going to be pretty much what you've got now,'' predicts Joe King, a former Customs agent and Department of Homeland Security official who teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
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As someone who travels often, I don't think it is quite necessary to re-vamp a whole security plan for the nation. Points such as, arming TSA officers and adding more security checkpoints, would just be very expensive, dangerous, and quite unnecessary. Security breaches will continue to happen no matter what. Human nature requires us to get around problems if we want to get something done. There is always someone to pay off, something to re-wire, and some way to crack the code.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/03/lax-los-angeles-airport-shooting-tsa-security/3419675/
Comment by Tyra Harris 5th period
ReplyDeleteAirport security is as tight as it should ever be. The LAX shooting incident is another unfortunate event that causes Americans to ponder its morality. Airports aren't the only places that are prone to bomb threats, as the Boston Marathon bombing proved. Now, it seems, merely being in public provokes scary thoughts.
I think that although the elaborate TSA practices have been effective, better technology is available. In Israel, airports have created explosion proof chambers that release frequencies that will trigger any explosive on any person while inside of the chamber. In doing so, Israel airports have minimized profiling while creating an unavoidable, proven way to keep their airports safe.
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