The Pros And Cons Of Airport Security
Summary
Airport security has been a concern since the late 1960’s when a rash of hijackings was occurring around the world and in the united states in particular. In 1974 President Richard M. Nixon signed the Air Transportation Security Act of 1974. This act mandated that the FAA adapt metal detector for screening of passengers and X-ray inspection of carry-on bags (Rumerman, 2008, para. 9). The measure worked and hijackings within the United States was virtually nonresistant, unit September 11, 2001 when foreign national hijacked four airliners, one fling into the north tower of the World Trade Center, another into the South Tower, one into the Pentagon, with the final jet crashing near Shanksville PA. after the passenger tried to regain …show more content…
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All contractors are required to meet the same standards as the TSA(U.S. Government Accountability Office [GAO], 2015, p. 6). This is why airports like San Francisco International and the twenty other airports using a private company remain secure.
Alternative Action 1: Continue to use the TSA as the primary provider for airport security
Advantages: TSA is charged with the security of airports by statute, and its reasonable to assume they would be best suited to carry out the physical task of ensuring safety of our airport given the resources of the federal government.
Disadvantages: The TSA is a large organization with many levels of bureaucracy, it is charged with establishing security policies and regulations and then implements those same policies and procedures airports, there would seem to be a conflict of interest in that they are regulating themselves(Edwards, 2013, p. 9).
Alternative Action 2: Replace the TSA, with private contractor to provide airport
Airport security has been a concern since the late 1960’s when a rash of hijackings was occurring around the world and in the united states in particular. In 1974 President Richard M. Nixon signed the Air Transportation Security Act of 1974. This act mandated that the FAA adapt metal detector for screening of passengers and X-ray inspection of carry-on bags (Rumerman, 2008, para. 9). The measure worked and hijackings within the United States was virtually nonresistant, unit September 11, 2001 when foreign national hijacked four airliners, one fling into the north tower of the World Trade Center, another into the South Tower, one into the Pentagon, with the final jet crashing near Shanksville PA. after the passenger tried to regain …show more content…
Significance of the …show more content…
All contractors are required to meet the same standards as the TSA(U.S. Government Accountability Office [GAO], 2015, p. 6). This is why airports like San Francisco International and the twenty other airports using a private company remain secure.
Alternative Action 1: Continue to use the TSA as the primary provider for airport security
Advantages: TSA is charged with the security of airports by statute, and its reasonable to assume they would be best suited to carry out the physical task of ensuring safety of our airport given the resources of the federal government.
Disadvantages: The TSA is a large organization with many levels of bureaucracy, it is charged with establishing security policies and regulations and then implements those same policies and procedures airports, there would seem to be a conflict of interest in that they are regulating themselves(Edwards, 2013, p. 9).
Alternative Action 2: Replace the TSA, with private contractor to provide airport