There has always been controversy as to whether pat-downs and body scans should be used in airports to ensure passenger safety. In airports, the security should be allowed to use pat-downs and body scans. Using pat-downs and body scans at airports are beneficial if you have nothing to hide, determines threats better than looks, and prevents plane bombings; however, scanners also send a message that everyone is at terrorist risk, they emit radiation to people, and they violate right to privacy.
According to BLeonard, if you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to fear.(“Would the use of full-body scanners at airports be respectful of individual rights”1) “Getting searched is better than the alternative especially for people who refuse the search.”(541Inferno 1) When someone refuses to get searched all that does is draws more attention to them as being a suspect and possibly having something. “What if someone refused to be searched or scanned and they let them on and then BAM they hijacked.”(Are body-scanners respectful of individual rights at airports 2) Even though some people it is very time consuming to go through all of those body scanners and pat-downs, it is actually worth using that time to ensure the outcome. “You cannot put a price on ones life, so to simply spend a couple of privacy rules here [to think] and [you’ll see] there [life] is worth much more than anything else.”(2) As long as you do exactly what the security says you will not take any more time than anyone else that is waiting in line with you. Once you get past security once you will not have to worry about waiting in line anymore. According to NineLester, “Those who want to use the services of airports should realize that the safety of everyone is a to...
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...lives outweighs the cons of it. By keeping body scanners and pat-downs in the airports, people will have nothing to hide and nothing to loose, searching will not be based on race or looks, and it prevents plane bombings and hijacks from occurring. For now the security at the airports need to keep up their tight security and the government needs to keep allowing it to go on.
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The Change in Airport Security from 9/11 The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2011 prompted the world to reevaluate and drastically modify airport and airline security. “Four targets had been chosen, all iconic American buildings that would send a clear message of the depth of their hatred for the United States. All four planes crashed, killing all on board—terrorists, crew members, and passengers, along with hundreds who were killed inside the structures, on the ground, and the men and women who ran into collapsing buildings in an effort to try and save others” (Smutz 1). As Jason Villemez said “the decade after the 9/11 attacks reshaped many facets of life in America” (Villemez 1). Before the attacks, people did not think that large scale hostility towards innocent people in our country was remotely possible.
After 9/11 there was a great increase in security nationwide. One major example of this is the number of agencies created as a result of 9/11. Among these agencies include the creation of the TSA (Transportation Security Administration), the DHS (The Department of Homeland Security), the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), and lastly the massive advancement of the US Coast Guard. Every one of the budgets of these agencies has doubled since 9/11. The creation of the transportation and security administrations primary goal is to improve the safety of all American Citizens traveling by plane. The TSA started implementing, new policies and new technological advancements.
As the 19 hijackers made their way through the three East coast airports, on September 11, 2001, planning on executing the world’s worst terrorist attack in history, they test the U.S airport security. At almost every step along the way, airport security posed no challenge to the 19 terrorist hijackers. Not to their ability to purchase tickets, to pass security checkpoints while carrying knives, and other objects that be used as weapons on them. Not one step of airport security posed as a challenge or threat to the terrorist. If airport security was more advanced and carful as it is now, the hijackers would have never made their way on to the
Terrorism and racial profiling is nothing new in our society. Although some people would like to believe that it is nonexistent, it is still a major issue in today’s world. With that being said, my view on the subject is that racial profiling is going to continue to happen whether we like it or not. I believe profiling isn 't necessarily meant to intentionally harm anyone, but is used as a tool to prevent terrorism. Past terroristic attacks have lead to the many stereotypes and prejudice that our country has today.
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Going through security, boarding an airplane and sitting next to someone without that person feeling worried or acting suspicious of them, is starting to become very uncommon. Rephrase...
“What time should we leave? Two hours in advance? Three? Four?” Millions of people ask these questions each year before boarding a plane. Between driving, security, walking to the gate, and getting settled, boarding a plane exhausts travelers. But out of all of these different activities, one frustrates and restrains travelers the most: TSA security. People ask why they need all this security, complain about the inconvenience it causes, and ultimately annoys people to no end. Created after 9/11, Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, nationalized airport security, increased screening duration, and supposedly increases security on flights. However, statistics say these added security measures never come to fruition and potentially cost more lives than they save.
The detectors make them doubt their safety because they feel they are in a dangerous enough environment to require metal detectors. For example, Tajae Dennis states, “The scanners make me feel like im going in a prison.” (Lemire, New York City’s Schools Debate Removing Metal Detectors). Children should feel safe and comfortable in the environment that they are forced to be in for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. . They should be in a comforting, relaxed environment and welcomed every morning with smiles and not by being scanned for weaponry.
...goes against every American constitutional right. If we enable government officials to take away our civil liberties we are going to become a fearful nation.
The importance of the TSA in security can be seen on a daily basis, even though this security comes at a price. Majority of the time the lines move smoothly and delays are caused by passengers who rush and fail to follow the rules. This week alone 37 Firearms were discovered, of the 37 firearms, 34 were loaded and 15 had rounds chambered. (Transportation Security Administration, 2014) These are dangers items that we don’t know the intent of the passengers. If you look back at the events of 9/11 lesser weapons (box cutters) were used by the hijackers to take over the plan, fear is a powerful tool. The TSA has used multiple detection systems which assist with detection of these items which include but not limited to body scanners, chemical scanners (which detection gun power ingredients), metal detectors ...
The Unethical Era of Government Surveillance The Government 's domestic surveillance programs post 9/11 completely infringe on our rights as American citizens, create a mistrust toward government, and aren 't nearly as effective as they claim to be. Surveillance is defined as the observation or monitoring of a person. The government is observing and monitoring to the extreme which is causing an unethical era of surveilling. The government has been using this tool of surveillance to an invasive amount after the tragedy of September 11,2001.
The stop and frisk policy is a policy in which law enforcement officers stop and asks questions and frisk people they feel are suspect, and I feel that it is wrong because it targets too many innocent people and takes the focus off real criminals. They do this even if the person has done nothing wrong....
Everyone in Canada should not be photographed or fingerprinted because it infringes on the Charter Rights all Canadian citizen are entitled to. Section 7 of the Charter states that “everyone has the right to life, liberty and security” but not everyone might feel that a database about them is upholding that right. People would feel like they are being monitored and watched even if they have done nothing wrong. Fingerprinting or photographing everyone (or even people accused of a crime) could lead people to believe that they themselves are considered criminals and that the government needs tabs on them to make sure no one commits a crime even if they never had the intention of committing the crime.
Racial profiling is stereotyping and it violates civil rights. Also it has harm ethnic minorities. People have different opinions about this kind of situation they have their pros and cons, it has come to a point where they even violated our civil rights. When it comes to racial profiling it has affected society for many years that even law enforcement have become a problem to the community as well retails stores, as we seen, the races that are target the most are non-white. Throughout the years we seen and heard cases about people been innocent and that get followed at a shopping center, get stop just by walking down the street for looking “suspicious” and for their physical appearances. It’s not a great thing to do, but let’s face it we have done at some point.
Government Surveillance today has changed from what it used to be. Technology has expanded through the past several decades and the government’s monitoring abilities have also expanded tremendously. Since the September 11, 2001 9/11 terrorist attacks, government surveillance has become more a part of everyday life. Government surveillance is said to help in efforts of capturing terrorists and stopping terrorist attacks before they even happen. But how much of our civil liberties are we giving up in order to maybe help capture some terrorists. The rapidly advancing technology of today and a more globalizing culture has made privacy and civil liberties come more into the forefront of our views. After about nine years of unprecedented spending and growth, the result is that the government surveillance system put into place to keep the United States safe, is so massive that its effectiveness is becoming questionable.