Report: Are Airports Spending Too Much on Security?
Adding more security measures at U.S. airports might not be worth the cost, according to a new report, which notes that it might even make sense to relax some of the existing security tactics.
John Mueller, a professor of political science at Ohio State University, and Mark G. Stewart, a civil engineering professor at the University of Newcastle in Australia, conclude that airports are not good targets for terrorists, and the odds of being killed in an airport attack are extremely long, LA Times reports. The study, Cost-benefit analysis of airport security: Are airports too safe?, relied on cost and risk reduction numbers for LAX, but were calculated before the Nov. 1 shooting that left Transportation Security Administration agent Gerardo Hernandez dead. However, Mueller says, the shooting did not change the cost analysis.