cost effective security

[dsrtao]

more air marshals have been arrested since 9/11 (for crimes like smuggling explosives, domestic violence, drunk driving and human trafficking) than the number of people arrested by the marshals. The $860 million spent on the service amounts to about 4.2 arrests per year, at a cost of $200 million per arrest.

-- from Boing Boing coverage of http://duncan.house.gov/2009/06/22062009.shtml

Comments

[dlevey.livejournal.com]

The obvious solution, then, is to encourage suspected terrorists to become marshals, as their rate of arrest is greater.

[metageek.livejournal.com]

I just love the idea that we gave someone who was smuggling explosives a license to carry a gun on a plane.