Air Marshals cost $200 million per arrest

Started by TehBorken, Apr 08 10 07:04

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TehBorken

  [font style="font-family: Arial Narrow;" size="5"]Air Marshals cost $200 million per arrest??[/font]

Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr. has called for the abolition of the  Air Marshal Service, arguing that 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.  [blockquote]  Professor Ian Lustick of the University of Pennsylvania wrote last year  about the money feeding frenzy of the war on terror. And he wrote this:  "Nearly 7 years after September 11, 2001,'' he wrote this last year,  "what accounts for the vast discrepancy between the terrorist threat  facing America and the scale of our response? Why, absent any evidence  of a serious terror threat, is a war to on terror so enormous, so  all-encompassing, and still expanding?  The fundamental answer is that  al Qaeda's most important accomplishment was not to hijack our planes  but to hijack our political system."  "For a multitude of politicians, interest groups and professional  associations, corporations, media organizations, universities, local and  State governments and Federal agency officials, the war on terror is  now a major profit center, a funding bonanza, and a set of slogans and  sound bites to be inserted into budget, grant, and contract proposals.''
[/p][/blockquote]Full story: [a href="vny!://duncan.house.gov/2009/06/22062009.shtml"]vny!://duncan.house.gov/2009/06/22062009.shtml[/a]
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Russ

Im actually kindve in support with this program.Its a deterent in the mind to most.The determined ones will still attempt however.
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49er

will it help if there were more incidents to bring unit cost down?  Another view of program is that it is working to deter acts.

P.C.

I don't get it.  How can it cost $200 mill for an arrest ?  
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Little Fish

I think it has cost 600 million plus since it was started. The arrests are divided into how much the program has cost so far for each arrest. Thus saying it costs so much per arrest, is not so much a blatant lie, as it is just being misleading. It is a tactic often used by opponents, To make something appear more evil or negative, than it truly is. What the program has cost since its beginning would be a more accurate statement, though it is doubtful you will ever see that written..