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?
From state law enforcement to federal law enforcement agencies, from in-house security to contract guard force management companies, there is a live and dynamic movement across the United States to re-design existing security strategy, and attempt to incorporate more dynamic, effective and overall proactive security programs. It’s called many names: Behavior Detection, Behavior Pattern Recognition, Security Profiling, Behavior Assessment, Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT), Suspicion Indicators Recognition & Assessment (SIRATM) and many more. But what’s it all about? Let’s start with a real life example.