by Jeff Price | Jan 22, 2010 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs, Passenger and Baggage Screening
New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg has introduced legislation to address security breaches at the nation’s airports. The new law would: … Mandate use of security cameras at all airport terminal checkpoints and secure-area exits and require regular testing to...
by Jeff Price | Jan 20, 2010 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs
The headline is from the movie “A Few Good Men,” spoken by Jack Nicholson. With Erroll Southers bowing out under pressure from Sen. Jim DeMint from his appointment to head TSA, all that has happened is that the country is less safer today. DeMint’s...
by Jeff Price | Jan 13, 2010 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Current Affairs, Existing and Emerging Threats, Introduction to Screening
A recent Gallup poll showed that many American’s support ethnic profiling in our airports. I do not. Here’s why. It doesn’t work. The question is often asked, should we profile? Well, not profiling is like saying “don’t breathe.” We...
by Jeff Price | Jan 12, 2010 | Aviation Security, Overview of Aviation Security
I say this knowing full well that I am an educator, a trainer in the aviation security industry, and the co-author of a textbook on aviation security, but the real problem with TSA (and many others in control of aviation security), is the lack of individuals that are...
by Jeff Price | Jan 8, 2010 | Aviation Security, Christmas Day Bomber, Current Affairs
In recent interviews on Denver’s Fox 31 News and on 9News, I tried to answer the most commonly asked question whenever there is a security incident: “How can we improve the system?” A good follow up question to that is: “At what point does all...
by Jeff Price | Jan 8, 2010 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs
According to CBS News in L.A., TSA faces allegations that its employees at Los Angeles International Airport were caught on tape using drugs. The investigation began last year when a TSA worker was arrested for allegedly counterfeiting parking passes in the employee...
