Expert Says CAPPS II Does Not Increase Passenger Safety

Airline Security’s False Hope?: An expert on aviation safety statistics says a new computer system to screen out terrorists may actually make things easier for them, by Arnold Barnett (reg. req’d).

  • “The latest incarnation of security screening for our airports has many friends in high places. U.S. secretary of transportation Norman Mineta described it as ‘the foundation of aviation security.’ The Transportation Security Administration has called the system—known as CAPPS II, meaning the second version of the Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System—the most important single program on the agency’s agenda. Such votes of confidence, however, intensify my fear that this new system—scheduled for deployment in 2004—will do us more harm than good.”
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