Airport Security Essay

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Airport Security The terrorist attacks on 9/11 in 2001 was an event that shook this country to its core, and even more than a decade later the effects of the attacks can still be felt around to this day. Even internationally, frustratingly thorough airport security has become the norm. For example in Britain, over 56,000 people were detained in one year alone (Travis, 2013). With these new additions to airport security, many are beginning to question the effectiveness of such inconvenient procedures. It is no secret that the TSA has a massive budget of $5,253,956,000 (Cong. Rec., 2011). However despite having this money at their disposal it is all too apparent that the TSA is always one step behind terrorism. Any newly implemented form of security has been in response to a recent terrorist event (Wolmar, 2009). Even worldwide, changes to airport security have been made. The budget for airport security worldwide increased 30% one year after the September 11th attacks ("Expenditure," 2002). Despite increasing budgets, people still wonder about the effectiveness of increasing security. Effectiveness of airport security How the security system is broken. A huge problem with the TSA and how it chooses to combat terrorism is it’s disconnect with the people the program is trying to protect. Scanners are not dependable and pat downs can be seen as an invasion of privacy. Frustrating procedures leads to uncooperative people resulting in an even slower procedure (Hawley, 2012). The TSA is behind on times, they’re fighting terrorism as if it were 2001. It would not be possible for a person to take over an airplane with just a box cutter with the advent of reinforced cockpit doors and air marshals (Hawley, 2012). The TSA has always struggled to keep up to date when fighting terrorism according to former TSA administrator Kip Hawley (2012), Looking at the airport security

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