Airway and Transit Policing
The Airway and Transit Policing topic is aimed at the law enforcers who keep our transit systems safe.
You have to let your mind go into the deepest, darkest hole of pure evil in order to truly imagine those “worst of the worst” plans the opposition might dream up
Activists and community groups argue that, on a system where violent crime is relatively low, the money could be better spent
Fifty more officers will be stationed on trains and platforms and four detectives will be assigned to investigate nothing but transit crimes
Dashcam video captured a single-propeller KR2 as it landed on street after fuel system error
The man punched five officers before being tackled
The suspect “spontaneously stated upon his arrest” that he had gone to the airport to harm a cop
The agency is making the change to reduce traveler stress by deploying more floppy-ear dogs to sniff out explosives in public areas
London’s Gatwick Airport - Britain’s second-busiest - reopened Friday after a 36-hour shutdown caused by drone sightings
Newly released security video of a failed suicide bombing in the New York City subway system gives a fuller picture of the police response
Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYPD said Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s policy encourages lawlessness and is unfair to law-abiding straphangers
Airport security screeners uncovered 3,957 firearms in 2017, a 16 percent increase from 2016
Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday the TSA should speed up plans to deploy the technology nationally
A TSA agent saw the Kahr Arms 9mm semi-automatic handgun when a bag belonging to State Rep. Lori Saine went through an X-ray machine
Michael Christopher Estes is charged with leaving a homemade bomb near a terminal and later telling investigators he sought to “fight a war on U.S. soil”
British police made progress Sunday in their investigation of the bomb that partially exploded on a packed subway
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“The subway isn’t supposed to be New York City’s temporary morgue,” said John Samuelsen, president of Transport Workers Union International
According to the Los Angeles County Probation Department, transit fare evasion is the number one cause of juvenile citations in LA County
A former police chief whose mother is Italian and father is Somali said Sunday that he’s disappointed with his country of 42 years after he was detained
Extra police patrols and officers armed with heavy weapons have been added to major airports in New York and Chicago
Here’s an overview of what to keep in mind when traveling with and transporting a gun from an airport
A man who gunned down a Southwest Airlines employee outside of Oklahoma City’s airport likely killed the victim in retaliation
She was booked at a police station on suspicion of petty theft and later released
Scenes of chaos and panic unfolded Tuesday night as gunfire and explosions on two different floors sent crowds fleeing first in one direction, then another
Over the past year, TSA has been focused less on perimeter security than on stopping weapons that passengers or baggage handlers try to sneak onto planes
Say data would be useful in understanding how biological contaminants might move through the tunnels during a terrorist attack
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A man was arrested after urinating on other people and their belongings in the last half-hour of a Portland-bound flight
Rapper Wiz Khalifa was stopped and pinned to the ground when he refused to get off his hoverboard
Shows the man swinging back at the officer and later being forcibly removed while holding the small girl
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