,Time to Rethink Airport Security

Time to Rethink Airport Security


 

Publication Date: September 2004

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Robert W. Jr. Poole; James Jay Carafano

Research Area: Government; Transportation

Keywords: Homeland defense; airpor security

Type: Report

Abstract:

America's airport security needs can be met more effectively by (1) restructuring the Transportation Security Administration as an aviation security policymaker; (2) devolving screening responsibility to the airport level under the supervision of a federal security director; and (3) requiring the DHS to develop a passenger and cargo security system that employs a risk-based model.