do you feel safe at the airport?

To the many people who feel that the government is really making it safer for you at the airports, I have news for you.....it is only an ILLUSION!

This isn't a democrat or republican thing so keep the politics and blaming out of the thread please.

Homeland security should actually have a section consisting of people trying to see if the system really protects us and making sure that our billions spent on our security is really working. I myself do not feel that we can 100% protect us from the bad guys.


https://gma.yahoo.com/jet-skier-breaks-jfk-airports-100-million-security-091034261--abc-news-topstories.html




Jet Skier Breaks Through JFK Airport's $100 Million Security System

A man whose jet ski failed him in New York's Jamaica Bay swam to John F. Kennedy airport, where he was easily able to penetrate the airport $100 million, state-of-the art security system.
Daniel Casillo, 31, was able to swim up to and enter the airport grounds on Friday night, past an intricate system of motion sensors and closed-circuit cameras designed to to safeguard against terrorists, authorities said.

"I think he should be given dinner and a bottle of champagne for showing us our faults," said Nicholas Casale, an NYPD veteran and former MTA deputy security director for counterterrorism.

Instead, Casillo was arrested after the incredible adventure that has stunned security officials.

Casillo's night began innocently enough, as he and some friends were racing on jet skis in Jamaica Bay near JFK airport when his watercraft stalled. After calling for and receiving no help, he managed to swim towards the only thing he could see, the runway lights at JFK.

Once he made it to land, Casillo climbed an eight-foot barbed-wire perimeter fence and walked undetected through the airport's Perimeter Intrusion Detection System and across two runways into Delta's terminal 3.

Unnoticed until then, Casillo walked into the airport dripping wet and wearing his bright yellow life jacket.

When he was eventually spotted by a Delta employee, police charged Casillo with criminal trespassing.

"It's outrageous," Casale said. "Why in 2012 do we not have a security system throughout our airports?"

This is not the first time an airport's security systems failed.

In March, a black jeep sped down a runway at Philadelphia's international airport. That incident came on the heels of another in California, when a BMW slammed through the airport fence when the driver reportedly lost control.

Last year at JFK there was a huge uproar over that same perimeter fence, when it was knocked out by weather and remained down for days.

New York Port Authority officials tell ABC News this time around they "took immediate action to increase its police presence with round the clock patrols of the facility's perimeter and increased patrols by boat of the surrounding waterway."

"We have called for an expedited review of the incident and a complete investigation to determine how Raytheon's perimeter intrusion detection system-which exceeds federal requirements-could be improved. Our goal is to keep the region's airports safe and secure at all times," the Port Authority said in a statement.

I don't think it's the job of the Department of Homeland Security or its Transportation Security Administration to secure that part of the airport. That work is to be done by the airport operator, which is the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is a creation of those two states, not Uncle Sam.

Seems to me that PANYNJ and its contractor on JFK's security system, Raytheon, have some explaining to do.

Once he made it to land, Casillo climbed an eight-foot barbed-wire perimeter fence and walked undetected through the airport's Perimeter Intrusion Detection System and across two runways into Delta's terminal 3.

While it is scary to know that he was able to do this, one would have to ask if this wasn't a cover-up story for something he planned to do all along? Obviously a high barbed wire fence is supposed to mean "keep out" even if your jet ski stopped working.

There are not many people that think this.

I think most Americans believe that the security systems and personnel at this nation's airports make those airports and aviation much, much safer than they'd be without those systems and personnel.

In fact, I can't imagine a single, nondelusional person thinking that those systems don't increase security. What's safer, an airport with a cop, or that same airport but with no cops?

Not even a serious debate.

Their perimeter intrusion detection system must have been made in China or New Jersey. The technology has been around for more than 30 years, it's called the Miles System. The damn thing is capable of detecting a freaking rabbit if it's configured correctly. Although if you do it right, it takes less than 10 seconds to scale a 8 foot barbed wire fence.

I'm surprised there isn't two fences, with sensors placed in the ground in between.

I'm still sensing this person planned this. Let's see what comes out in the next few days.

So it seems to me Mr. Casillo has experience in scaling an eight ft. barbed wire fence.
Hey...just sayin'. Seriously, is this guy as innocent as he claims? Or was he trying to prove a point? Regardless, security is only as good as the people that are employed for the job.

Does anyone feel safer driving under a hotel tower to the main entrance in a taxi? I sure don't.

If they want any real security, they should have a double fence 15ft between the inner and outer fences, sensors on the fence, and buried in the ground. 10 Ft tall chain link fence with perimeter lighting all around. I would add an electrified inner fence just in case anyone gets froggy.

For the truly sadist approach, add claymore mines spaced 10 feet across in a zig zag pattern, in between each, bury a nice bouncing betty type anti personal mine to ward off any unsuspecting idiots who manage to get through. - maybe they should put this on our southern boarders.