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History of TSA
On March 9, 1972, a Trans World Airlines jet bound for Los Angeles took off from JFK International Airport in New York. Moments into the flight, the airline received an anonymous phone call warning there was a bomb on the flight. The aircraft returned to JFK where passengers were evacuated and a bomb-sniffing dog named Brandy was brought aboard to search. Brandy found the explosive device just 12 minutes before it was set to detonate. That same day, then-President Nixon directed the Secretary of Transportation to use innovative means to combat the problems plaguing civil aviation. The result was the creation of a unique federal project - the FAA Explosives Detection Canine Team Program - designed to place certified teams at strategic locations throughout the nation so that any aircraft receiving a bomb threat could quickly divert to an airport with a canine team.
While technology has afforded modern man the ability to travel across the world in relatively short time spans, a great cost is also associated with this luxury. The dangers that terrorism has presented to the world since the fateful attacks...
The United States Transportation Security Administration has been a massive failure and has wasted millions if not billions of taxpayer money with little to no reduction in terrorism. It is time to reexamine the efficacy, efficiency and economics of the TSA as it relates to common sense travel.
Due to the large increase in world air travel and the growing technology to produce undetectable weapons the U.S. should take the lead with other nations to secure the skies. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate how the TSA is ultimately ill equipped to deal with this problem and that a new solution is obviously necessary. This essay will highlight three main problems with the TSA and its approach to airline safety before concluding with a message to urge for change.
Problems with TSA
The most important and obvious failure of the TSA since 9/11 is that is blatantly ineffective. Terrorism itself is an almost impossible thing to defend due to the ambiguity of the word and the charged emotions that always accompany its usage. The TSA is not capable of handling such security checks. Blakely (2013) agreed with this idea when he wrote "The TSA has been notoriously terrible at catching threats. The failure rate of 70% on guns and knives is comically bad, and in March a TSA agent was able to sneak a bomb in his pants through two checkpoints and a pat down. Given that the…
The U.S. Constitution's fourth amendment was supposed to protect against this type of unlawful invasion of personal freedom, but due to the exaggerations of the terrorist threat by media and politicians we are stuck with a despicable and ugly organization. There has been much debate about this problem but Macsata (2010) explained how this is a violation when he wrote "Benjamin Franklin once said, "He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither."
Apparently, members of Congress agree with our founding fathers, as they are lining up against TSA's new security measures. On November 18th, Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. told the Knoxville News Sentinel, "The American people should not have to choose between having full-body radiation or a very embarrassing, intrusive pat-down every time they fly, as if they were criminals." Rep. Duncan also called into question the lucrative nature of the contracts being secured by some of the private companies represented by former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff."
The TSA is also a massive waste of money and resources. Fighting terrorism can be done at a much cheaper and effective manner than the TSA is currently conducting itself. Many mistakes have been made, but when the TSA admits that they have wasted tons of resources, a
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