by Jeff Price | Aug 14, 2012 | Aviation Security, Introduction to Screening, Passenger and Baggage Screening
The recent accusations of racial profiling being used by the TSA’s Behavior Detection Officers may hurt what is an otherwise effective security measure – the security questioning and behavior detection process. Opponents of the program have been waiting...
by Jeff Price | Aug 29, 2011 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Current Affairs, Introduction to Screening
It’s too early to tell if TSA’s new approach to behavior detection will work. Click here for full story. Unfortunately, the United States has a history of taking something that works really well, adapts it, but not without taking out the thing that made it...
by Jeff Price | Jan 24, 2011 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs
Updated: 2:31 pm MST: Based on the first reports, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive in the terminal building at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport. The explosion occurred near the the international arrivals section of the airport. We are now hearing that there may...
by Jeff Price | Nov 4, 2010 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Aircraft Operator Security, Crime and Terrorism, Current Affairs, Existing and Emerging Threats, Introduction to Screening, Passenger and Baggage Screening
If you’re not aware of the ramifications of TSA’s new pat-down policy, click here. If the link is still active, what you likely saw was a TSA screener appearing to conduct a pat down search of a a small boy. Yea, I know it looks like he’s feeling him...
by Jeff Price | Jan 28, 2010 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs, Introduction to Screening
The Air Line Pilots Association have a point. In their recently released White Paper on “Meeting Today’s Aviation Security Needs: A Call to Action for a Trust-Based Security System” ALPA calls for a risk-based assessment of passengers as a security...