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What American Airport Security Can Learn from the Israelis' Behavioral Profiling System


[Weekly Standard] Jonathan V. Last - The Israelis are generally regarded as having the safest air travel in the world because, instead of searching for weapons, they use behavioral profiling to search for terrorists. The success of the "behavior-pattern recognition" (BPR) pilot program at Boston's Logan Airport, instituted by Israeli security consultant Rafi Ron, prompted the TSA to adopt it under the moniker SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation Technique), and it is now in effect at a dozen American airports.
2006-09-01 01:00:00
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