by Jeff Price | Sep 2, 2013 | Are We Safer, Aviation Security
Determining whether we are better off today than we were prior to 9/11 in the area of checked baggage screening this one is no contest. Quite simply, prior to 9/11 checked baggage screening didn’t exist. Well, let me qualify that little bit, we did have this...
by Jeff Price | Sep 2, 2013 | Are We Safer, Aviation Security
Every year about this time THE question comes around again – it’s been X number of years since 9/11 and Are We Safer? This is the first question that I always ask in my Aviation Security class at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Usually, about...
by Jeff Price | Aug 22, 2013 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs, Introduction to Screening
A recent Government Accountability Office report (click here for the report) showed TSA personnel sleeping, showing up late to work, abusing leave time and other lesser infractions, but along with those they also found TSA personnel guilty of theft, and allowing...
by Jeff Price | Jul 19, 2013 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs, Introduction to Screening
The original intent of PreCheck, TSA’s risk-based security strategy to allow known travelers alternative screening, meaning they can keep their liquids and laptops in their bag, their jacket and belts on and their dignity and efficiency in place, is about to...
by Jeff Price | Jul 2, 2013 | Aviation Security, Introduction to Screening
You may be noticing more canines in the screening checkpoint these days. This is part of TSA’s risk-based security strategy and is known as managed inclusion. Taking of advantage of airports with pre-check managed inclusion takes randomly selected passengers...
by Jeff Price | Jul 1, 2013 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs
I have been asked about a new movie is coming out about TWA 800, the flight that crashed off the coast of Long Island on July 17, 1996. Conspiracy theorists have long speculated that the aircraft was downed by a surface-to-air missile, instead of the NTSB explanation...
