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Inside Two Agencies: How Security and Policy Problems Undermine the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Speed has become more important that security in two organizations that should be emphasizing security. The Star-Ledger investigates the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and finds that airport screeners are not as efficient as they should be. In addition, the series discusses the difficulty of securing cargo both at the port and on passenger jetliners.
Tags: Transportation Security Administration; Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; cargo; security; port security; airport security; airline security
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Private Security in a Post-9/11 World
As the focal point of a study of the private guard industry in New York state, WNYC looks at Tristar Patrol Services, "which had seen a dramatic expansion after the September 11 attack in NYC, getting more than $80 million in contract work with the City of New York." The company had more than a thousand employees, mostly young minority males, and they had the task of protecting all of the city's office space, infrastructure and Fire Department facilities. The investigation found that Tristar's owner, Gary Zimmer, had been convicted of assault and had to resign as a police officer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, yet attained the right to hold a security guard company license when a judge, believing the owner's misrepresentation of his criminal case, granted him an exemption from state law. In addition, there were other issues as Tristar "had been disqualified from doing state work for misrepresenting it had properly credentialed guards, but went on to win a multi-million dollar, multi-year City contract." The company failed to properly compensate guards, including not paying for vacation or advanced state security credentials, and Tristar also did not pay "hundreds of thousands of dollars it was required to pay the union representing the guards to cover union dues and health and welfare benefits required by the contract." But because of the New York Secretary of State's lack of investigators, regulations were not enforced. Also, there is no uniform requirement across the country for the training and qualifications for security guards and companies.
Tags: Private security; Sept. 11, 2001; Tristar Patrol Services; Gary Zimmer; New York City security
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Battle Acroos
New Jersey Monthly sheds light on the never ending competition between New Jersey and New York in attracting each other's businesses and commercial control over Hudson River. "It seems that whenever a major company threatens to pack its bags, politicians in either state will trip over themselves to find the resources to persuade it to stay," the magazine reports. The story exemplifies the battle for attracting and holding corporate players with a $1.1 billion bond issue, approved by New York governor George Pataki, designed to keep the News York Stock Exchange in lower Manhattan. The article finds that "this economic tug-of-war diminishes both states."
Tags: politicians; Port Authority of New Jersey and New York; Jersey City; public subsidies; corporations; tax abatements; industrial development bonds; Time Warner; Mail.com; America Online; Lockheed Martin; Goldman Sachs; Chase Manhattan