The Baltimore police department is re-evaluating a program that empowers certain security officers to act as police officers and make arrests.

A report by the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) says that 13% of federal workers witness workplace violence.

Let’s start with the basics: the reason we take off our shoes at the airport is because the shoe bomber tried to get a bomb on a plane. The reason we can only carry on 3-ounce bottles? Someone tried to get a liquid bomb on a plane. Body scanners? Underwear bomber. But what if we took a look at suspicious behavior of the people attempting these acts of terrorism instead of relying primarily on machines to do our dirty work?

It wasn’t long ago that “cloud computing” was a marketing term being thrown around. And now? There’s been a marked shift towards cloud-based services. Research firm Gartner recently predicted that the market will grow 19.6 percent to $109 billion by the end of this year.

The pay for a security officer in NYC has increased by 10 percent over the last decade, compared to one percent for the rest of the country. 

Current background screening pushes criminal, educational, credit and federal tax reports back until after an applicant is actually hired, instead of before.  

A 2,000-worker riot on Sunday at the facility was allegedly sparked by a brawl between a few security officers and assembly-line workers.