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...
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...
One of the things I really appreciated about Bruce Feiler’s book, The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go out and Play, and Much More, is that he acknowledges the reality that of all the great advice that is...
It was never my life’s mission to become an aviation security “expert.” In fact, I had only recently gotten out of a commercial airport security position and fully into general aviation airport management, when 9/11 happened. My intent at that time...
There was really interesting piece recently posted on CBS4.com posing the question, are we safer than we were before 9/11 from terrorists attacks in our airports? The article examines a highly criticized practice relating to airport safety called “security theater.”...