Congress to TSA: No Cheating
Posted by Jim Harper
H.R. 2464, introduced yesterday, would prohibit the Transportation Security Administration from giving advance notice to security screeners when they are going to be covertly tested.
Does it need saying that tipping off screeners undermines the value of testing? Does TSA need a law to make it not do that?
Here’s the current vote on H.R. 2464. [...]
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Airline Security
Posted by Jim Harper
Well, this isn’t hot off the presses, but it’s a fascinating paper that I just had the chance to read.
Mark Stewart, a civil engineer at the University of Newcastle and John Mueller, a political science professor at Ohio State University, have done an analysis of the dollars spent per life saved by a [...]
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