The failure of Airport Security at JFK

[Exterous]

Good thing we have spent so much money securing our airports. Just look at how well the agencies involved handled the ficticious shooting and bomb threat at JFK:

As a human stampede tore its way through a terminal at Kennedy International Airport, a Transportation Safety Administration agent running along was heard screaming, “There’s a bomb!” Another agent yelled, “Someone’s been shot!”

Another passenger, Brandon Webb, 42, an author and former Navy SEAL, said he was waiting at baggage claim when he heard a uniformed officer shout: “Run for your lives! There’s an active shooter!”

Good job spreading lies and panic

Mr. Carson said he and his wife fell in behind a maintenance worker in an orange vest carrying an identification card. “He swiped through a security door that led down to the tarmac,” Mr. Carson said. Passengers followed him outside.
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He ran to a locked door and, peering through the window, saw an officer on the other side. The officer would not open the door.

There were communication problems. In Terminal 8, where the initial reports placed the gunman, the Port Authority police have only two live camera feeds of their own, Mr. Egbert said. Neither camera can be adjusted or swiveled remotely. And while American Airlines has an extensive surveillance video network in terminal, none of the officers were able to gain access to those video feeds from the police command center that night, he said.

Ross Feinstein, a spokesman for American Airlines, said that while Port Authority officers may not have had access to the airline’s camera feeds from the police command center, the video feeds were available for the police to watch in the American Airlines security office, also in Terminal 8.

But don't worry - apparently this is what passed for "textbook"

On Sunday night, Bobby Egbert, the spokesman for the union representing Port Authority police officers, called that agency’s response “textbook.”

We probably just need to spend a few billion more dollars to be safe.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/n...port-offer-a-real-case-study-in-security.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/n...port-offer-a-real-case-study-in-security.html

 

[Jaskalas]

"Agents"... ROFL. They're just normal people.

TSA has, in fact, picked up alcoholic bar flies to work for them in the past. That example is married to my extended family, not that they could handle that sort of "boring" job for long even after being promoted. We're not talking about trained soldiers, police, or professionals here. TSA can simply be a job for people in desperate need of one. That they could act as panicked as anyone else during a scare / threat / rumors should not be surprising.

 

[K1052]

The TSA and the Port Authority is a winning combo. This is what happens when massive incompetence meets decades long institutional laziness.

 

[WHAMPOM]

SNAFU! LOL, invented for when idiots are in charge.

 

[purbeast0]

Great I'm flying there Friday from Barcelona. I will say the lack of security at the train station in Paris was very surprising. We got onto our train with our luggage without ever going through a scanner or having our tickets checked.