No more checkpoint at LAX entrance?
Jan 27, 2013, 5:43 am
#1
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No more checkpoint at LAX entrance?
I dropped off my wife Friday at 4am. I usually go through Century Blvd but this time my wife directed me through the "back way" from Sepulvida and up the ramp at 96th/Skyway which drops you off right at T1.
For the first time since I can remember I didn't see a checkpoint coming into LAX. I thought maybe it was because I went through the back way but when I drove out back to the freeway, I looked and didn't see anything at the Century Blvd main entrance either.
Did they get rid of the checkpoint?
For the first time since I can remember I didn't see a checkpoint coming into LAX. I thought maybe it was because I went through the back way but when I drove out back to the freeway, I looked and didn't see anything at the Century Blvd main entrance either.
Did they get rid of the checkpoint?
Jan 27, 2013, 6:13 am
#2
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I dropped off my wife Friday at 4am. I usually go through Century Blvd but this time my wife directed me through the "back way" from Sepulvida and up the ramp at 96th/Skyway which drops you off right at T1.
For the first time since I can remember I didn't see a checkpoint coming into LAX. I thought maybe it was because I went through the back way but when I drove out back to the freeway, I looked and didn't see anything at the Century Blvd main entrance either.
Did they get rid of the checkpoint?
For the first time since I can remember I didn't see a checkpoint coming into LAX. I thought maybe it was because I went through the back way but when I drove out back to the freeway, I looked and didn't see anything at the Century Blvd main entrance either.
Did they get rid of the checkpoint?
Jan 27, 2013, 5:25 pm
#3
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They definitely still exist, they must not have been able to get enough officers in there on overtime/workfare pay to staff the checkpoint. Security theater at almost the same level the TSA is capable of.
If you wanted to drive a fertilizer bomb into the airport, there are always two or three other ways to get it in. Very rarely do all entries have staffed checkpoints, usually just the Century one...
If you wanted to drive a fertilizer bomb into the airport, there are always two or three other ways to get it in. Very rarely do all entries have staffed checkpoints, usually just the Century one...
Jan 27, 2013, 7:59 pm
#4
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They definitely still exist, they must not have been able to get enough officers in there on overtime/workfare pay to staff the checkpoint. Security theater at almost the same level the TSA is capable of.
If you wanted to drive a fertilizer bomb into the airport, there are always two or three other ways to get it in. Very rarely do all entries have staffed checkpoints, usually just the Century one...
If you wanted to drive a fertilizer bomb into the airport, there are always two or three other ways to get it in. Very rarely do all entries have staffed checkpoints, usually just the Century one...
Jan 28, 2013, 3:40 am
#5
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But there continues to be, at least publicly, that claim when it comes to that checkpoint & the reason to continue funding for it.
Workfare to make the Kettle's feel safe sums it up best
Jan 28, 2013, 8:48 am
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Jan 28, 2013, 9:08 am
#7
Join Date: Sep 2012
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All those checkpoints and paranoia are expensive. Probably caught up with them.
Last time I was at LAX (which I can't stand) I've
never seen so many DHS and cops zipping around looking
for bad guys, but go look for help at an Information Desk and
no one is to be found. Oh yeah, did I mention I can't stand LAX?
Last time I was at LAX (which I can't stand) I've
never seen so many DHS and cops zipping around looking
for bad guys, but go look for help at an Information Desk and
no one is to be found. Oh yeah, did I mention I can't stand LAX?
Jan 29, 2013, 1:24 am
#8
Join Date: Nov 2008
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The drive-through checkpoints at LAX are due to the fact that a) LAX was, in fact, a target on New Year's Eve 1999/2000, and b) people are overly paranoid about large airports post-9/11. (See: BOS, JFK)
Absolutely nothing to do with any "misheld idea" that the 9/11 planes somehow all missed their turns and flew to NYC instead of their scheduled final destination of LAX.