Articles tagged “security”

For comparison with a few U.S. cities: New Orleans was 58 per 100,000 in 2011 and Chicago is 19 per 100,000 this year.

The conditions near border states are deplorable, but travelers who know Mexico also know that most parts of the country are safer than major U.S. cities when it comes to violent crime.

How do you become smart, efficient and most importantly, cost-effective about air security? This wordy, dense report from Rand has some good ideas, and gives a big thumbs up to the TSA trusted traveler program.

Travelers down under are worried about health effects and airports worry about installing a false sense of security, so are Aussies the picky ones or are Americans too willing to use scanners as a quick fix?

In tandem with the security system that failed is a private security force that's taken over duties from the Port Authority police.

Frequent fliers actually have a more positive opinion of the TSA than those who don't fly suggesting that average screening procedures go smoothly for fliers despite the agency's negative publicity.

The benefits of these technologies have been huge for aviation, but security should be improved before the wrong hacker causes chaos by jamming a plane's GPS capabilities or entering false traffic info for ghost flights.

It's questionable how granite posts could have ever protected LIRR's Atlantic Station from a terrorist attack, but if the MTA had been itching to spend money, we wish they had started on Penn Station’s much needed make over instead.

It's obvious why the TSA doesn't want to hold the hearings: The anti-TSA crowd hyperventilates merely upon mention of its initials. But the agency needs to add a layer of transparency if it ever wants to get the public back on its side.

The relationship between speed at the gate and personal privacy delivers predictability to the TSA as opposed to security, which is what they're really after.