Adjusting to Terrorism

Adjusting to Terrorism

Criminal Justice Administration/CJA454

U.S. citizens live in a world today, which is obsessed with terrorism. This is because of recent activities that have taken place on our own soil, and the events that have been taking place over the world. The attention on terrorism is at an all-time high and with daily coverage on the terroristic activities it would appear that we as a society are attempting to adjust to terrorism. In this paper an examination will occur concerning a prior situation in relation to terrorism and suggest an administrative change that may make the effort to combat terrorism more effective.

In recent months the news of aggressive pat downs from airlines have become a target of much debate. Adult men and women are putting his and her hands down the pants of airline passengers and even children if he or she refuses to walk through a radioactive full body scanner. This is indeed an invasion of privacy and against our Civil Liberties. “Benjamin Franklin once said, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” (Kelley, 2009) It feels as if we are doing just that, with this new system, which was meant to provide the airplane passengers with safety.

What this new system will do is make it more difficult for the passengers and make the techniques of terrorists to become more sophisticated. We are indeed giving up our liberties for a temporary safety. A suggestion would be to hire more security guards and intelligence officers to surround the airports and to be aboard our planes. We could eliminate some of the unnecessary procedures that we have presently with scanners and invasion of privacy. This would allow for more jobs, it would create new services and with the new services it would create a new form of revenue to pay for what it would cost through tax dollars. It establishes the need for provisions for the business of the airlines to improve because...