...The Transportation Security Administration is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that exercises authority over the security of the traveling public in the United States. The TSA was created as a response to the September 11, 2001, attacks. The organization was charged with developing policies to protect U.S. transportation, especially in airport security and the prevention of aircraft hijacking. With state, local, and regional partners, the TSA oversees security for highways, railroads, buses, mass transit systems, pipelines and ports. However, the bulk of the TSA's efforts are in aviation security. “Most of TSA’s workforce is Transportation Security Officers. About 50,000 TSOs screen 1.8 million passengers every day at airports all over the country. The TSA has taken several steps in recent years to promote continued education, foster a safe and productive work environment, and identify and reward outstanding performance.” (Transportation Security Administration, 2013) However, it seems the TSA is more interested in the appearance of security than actual security. The TSA has a huge task of ensuring security at different check points of the country. Over the last few years, they have maintained strict security measures because of the few incidents that took place at different intervals of the year. Their major task is to ensure security at the airports and they conduct security checks of the passengers with the help of various procedures. The security...
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...Problem with Airport Security: An Analysis of the Effectiveness and Cost of the Transportation Security Administration Since the beginning of air travel, airport security has been a problem because of matters such as terrorist attacks. Recently, the Transportation Security Administration has been in charge of security in American airports. Many problems plague the TSA though. Much research has been done on these issues. Although there are many threats of terrorist attacks since the 9/11 attacks, the TSA should be abolished because of its high cost and poor effectiveness. Before the attacks on the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001, airport security was not a large concern. The Transportation Security Administration was not established...
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...2001 the nations’ security has been a hot topic, not only in politics but in the everyday life of Americans. Airports are an obvious location for the substantial discussion over the effectiveness of security measures in the nation. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created to address the concerns created by the terrorist’s attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Congress passed and signed into law the Aviation and Transportation Security Act on November 19, 2001 which is the legislation creating the TSA. The stated mission of the TSA is “protect the nation’s transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce”. However, with any focus on the news or current events would be able to identify that the TSA has failed to fulfill their objectives....
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...Everyone loves going on vacation, but not everyone loves going to the airport. This is mainly because of the long, winding security lines, the trouble of taking off your shoes and belt and taking out all liquids, and the fear of being questioned or detained by the TSA. The TSA stands for the Transportation Security Administration, and they’re the ones who make airport life less than pleasant. According to their website, the “TSA was created to strengthen the security of the nation’s transportation systems and ensure the freedom of movement for people and commerce” (tsa.gov). The TSA was founded on November 19th, 2001 in response to the tragedy of September 11th. They were created to make sure nothing as severe as the Twin Towers ever happened...
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...Airport Security On September 11, 2001, a terrorist group by the name of the “Al-Qaeda” set a plan to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. There were nineteen people that were affiliated with this attack, fifteen of them were from Saudi Arabia, and the other four people were from United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Lebanon. There were four teams and each team had a highly trained pilot hijacker, all four of these hijackers were trained in South Florida before boarding the planes. United Airline Flight 11 from Boston hit the North Tower at 8:46am and United Airline Flight 175 from Los Angeles hit the South Tower at 9:03am. Both the North and the South Tower fell, many other buildings were burnt to the ground as well. On this horrific...
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...Airport security is very important for safety of all passengers that are flying worldwide. They are scanning thousands of passengers each day and are trying to make it as safe as possible for all flyers. That includes creating a better system that allows all objects to have a thorough check before being put onto a plane. The problem with airport security is that people are always trying to find new ways to test the system and bring explosives on board a plane. This is why it is very important to have improvements to airport security and all safety for all passengers flying. Airport security has been very busy over the last couple of years, screening passengers across the nation. In 2014, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)...
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...Tyus Franks Ms. Terry A.P Literature October 8, 2014 Airport Security Airport security is the name for techniques and methods used to protect staff, aircraft, and passengers from accidental or malicious harm, crime and other dangerous threats. People want to feel safe when they are traveling, so the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has many methods that they use to make sure that people who are traveling can actually be safe. The TSA works with other organizations so they can be successful as possible. “TSA uses a risk based strategy and works closely with transportation, law enforcement, and intelligence community’s to set the standard for excellence in transportation security” (tsa.org). They do not want to take any chances,...
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...Airport Security Design Introduction The world and the United States stood still on 11 September 2001 as terrorist attacked the United States using four jetliners. Over the course of the next thirteen months, the President of the United States along with the U.S. Congress passed a series of bills that would change the structure of the U.S. government. On 20 September 2001, President George W. Bush announces to congress the formation of the Office Homeland Security. In a speech to congress, President Bush states, “Our nation has been put on notice: We are not immune from attack. We will take defensive measures against terrorism to protect Americans. Today, dozens of federal departments and agencies, as well as state and local governments, have responsibilities affecting homeland security, which includes airport security (Bush, 2001). Of these government agencies, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) provides the federal guidelines, which all airports must adhere to for security. The FAA and TSA provide these guidelines through the Recommended Security Guidelines for Airport Planning, Design, and Construction, and TSA civil aviation rules, CFR 49-1542. It is up to airport operators to follow these guidelines to insure passenger and employee safety. Security Force Many airports across the United States use local law enforcement to aid in the security of their airports. However, several airports have...
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...TSA Implementation of Surface Transport Security The Transportation Security Administration or TSA, is an agency within Department of Homeland Security, which developed in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. The DHS was created by the Bush Administration as a way to consolidate security information and intelligence to help defend the the United States from foreign and homegrown aggression. The TSA itself was established under the Aviation and Transportation Security Act in November 2001. (http://www.tsa.gov/research/tribute/history.shtm) Since then, the TSA has become household term for air travelers in the United States, even abroad. The familiar annoyance of long lines and uniformed officers disassembling everything you packed. However, air travel in the United States is hardly the only method of transit utilized by the everyday citizen, or terrorist in sheep's clothing for that matter. Ten years later, one may ask, what is the TSA doing to protect other modes of transport? More specifically, what are they doing to help implement security for travelvia surface modes, such as trucks, rail, and ocean vessels? The mere mention of the the Transportation Security Administration conjures up the image of an airport and “prohibited items” lists. However, being the Transportation Security Administration, additional application is needed. Now, let's move forward, to 2011. TSA involvement in Security Of Surface Transport Beside the nation's...
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...Aviation Security Since the September 11th 2001 attack, aviation security has become a main focal point of national security. Air travel is one of the most frequently used forms of transportation within the United States and is supported by over 400 airports across the country. During this attack, terrorists utilized the weakened state of security in airports to fulfill one of our nation’s most devastating events. Due to these events security measures have increased dramatically over the last ten years to include new technology and security programs to reduce possible terrorist threats from boarding plans. I would like to understand if the correlation between the increased aviation security measures and the deterrence of terrorist utilizing this form of transportation in a terrorist plot. Understanding whether or not aviation security measures are effectively deterring terrorist threats could help shape the future of transportation security within the United States. If effective then some form of these security programs can then be applied to other forms of transportation such as railways or buses. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) states We use layers of security to ensure the security of the traveling public and the Nation's transportation system that include intelligence gathering and analysis, checking passenger manifests against watch lists, random canine team searches at airports, federal air marshals, federal flight deck officers and more security measures...
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...Security Manager Roles A security manager is one of the most important jobs of any organization. Although the position of security manager may differ from business to business, the main component of the job is to oversee the security operations for that business. Security managers develop and enforce security policies to ensure a safe environment for both employees and visitors. With the different organizations, security managers have key responsibilities that are vital to the daily operations of that organization. To identify the different responsibilities that security manager’s have in different organizations, we can define the key roles of a security manager for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and a security manager for an Information Technology (IT) company. Each of these individuals’ roles is crucial to protecting the security needs of their particular organization in their respective fields. A security manager for the Transportation Security Administration is the individual in charge of security operations at an airport terminal. They are in charge of supervisors, leads, and transportation security officers. They also oversee the daily operations schedule and training schedule to assure optimal security coverage on the screening checkpoints. The duties and roles of a security manager is to manage screening checkpoints, recognize and recommend corrections to improper use of equipment or screening procedures, manage employee performance, coordinate...
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...Airport Security Abstract Through the history of aviation the significance of airport security has progressively increased. Since the catastrophic terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, many changes have taken place at airports to prevent such an attack from occurring again. The purpose of this paper is to: outline airport security procedures, discuss the different technologies involved with airport security, as well as examine the components of airport security. In addition I will also discuss the Transportation Security Administration’s role in our nation’s airport security. Airport Security Airport Security is an essential of life both in America and throughout the world. Without airport security our airports would not be able to function and terrorist attacks like those of September 11th, 2001, would be more common. Passengers would be afraid to fly in fear of such a terrorist attack happening again. The airline industry would lose more revenue from lost ticket sales. Then the airports themselves would lose money from the lack of passengers boarding through their gates. Finally this lack of security would trickle down to the entire economy not only in the communities surrounding the airport and aviation industry, but to the nation’s economy as well. To keep this economic failure associated with another terrorist attack from happening, our nation must take the appropriate measures to prevent it. “Airport security procedures are designed to deter...
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...9/11 Eleven years ago, the United States of America had a hugely different attitude towards terrorism than it does now. There was no thought of any act of violence being done on "our soil" only those "other" countries. Ten years later, the effects of 9/11 and its aftermath are still being seen in America. Even more than Pearl Harbor or the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the 9/11 attacks stand alone as a seminal moment in the modern history of the United States, one that exerted the most profound effects on the politics, policies and psychology of America and its citizens. A few of the effects of the Twin Towers being brought down on September 11th, 2001 are; permanent vulnerability, the creation of the TSA (Transportation Security Administration), Ordinary Heroes, and a United People. For Michael Nacht, professor of public policy at UC Berkley, the most fundamental impact of 9/11 is the "sense of permanent vulnerability that haunts citizens of Main Street and Pennsylvania Avenue alike." Where there was no fear, there is now a loss of naivety regarding the unknown. In place of a naive society, there is now a sense of paranoia that never existed before. No longer do you ignore the sound of a crash, a boom, or the earth shaking. Such things are no longer attributed to an innocent source but immediate thought goes to terrorism. We hear a sonic boom and rush to the door to make sure that it couldn't be something more sinister. The thought of a bomb on a plane...
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...The Federal Air Marshal Service is Transportation Security Administration Law Enforcement. They are a federal law enforcement agency that is also under the supervision of Transportation Security Administration and Homeland Security. Their mission is to promote back confidence in our security nation’s transportation systems and to take away the fear from our citizens. Federal Air Marshal is trained law enforcement officer with arrest powers throughout our nation. They are trained in defense tactics, to defeat hostile passengers, and to detect problems that may occur on our aircrafts. They are the ones that make flying the friendly skies safer for travelers. TSA Air Federal Marshal also coordinates with several other law enforcement agencies, National Counterterrorism Center, the National Targeting Center, and FBI’S Joint Terrorism Task Forces along with...
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...Consequences & Prohibition of Certain Items to Board Planes April 14, 2014 Policy Analysis Two Abstract This paper explores the issue of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)—the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), allowing marijuana on planes, medical or not. This paper also addresses the issue of what steps TSA aviation security would follow as a procedure of an individual attempting to or boarding an airplane with marijuana. TSA has a “Prohibited Items” policy that specifically lists items prohibited from airplanes (“Prohibited Items,” 2014). This particular procedure would call for an adjustment in the TSA’s budget plan for the fiscal year 2015. Keywords: TSA, airplanes, FAA, prohibited items, medical marijuana According to the Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), have certain items that are prohibited from being brought onto airplanes in carry-on and checked bags (“Prohibited Items,” 2014). Although some items are generally permitted, they may be subject to additional screening or they will even be rejected if they trigger any alarms during the screening process, appear that someone has tampered with it, or pose other security problems (“Prohibited Items,” 2014). Some dangerous items are illegal in certain states and passengers will be subject to the state laws. Each passenger is responsible for obtaining the knowledge that origination and destination cities...
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