KABC 7 reporting LAPD "Citywide Tactical Alert has been cancelled... going to a "Modified Tactical Alert"
One terminal shut down at LAX, plus entire upper level... traffic will be worse than hellish
While our hundreds of agencies are busy trying to take credit for the investigation, handling the wounded, closing off the perimeter of the airport, controlling the crowd, letting us know that flights are operating smoothly elsewhere, predicting that the investion will be thorough and precise, coordinating restroom services -
The simple fact is that the security service of an airline of a Nation that is organized to protect its people took swift and deadly action that probably resulted in the minimum loss of life possible given the circumstances! Until we realize that we need a few very good men with very fine weapons to protect the high risk areas - not the hundreds of overlapping/conflicting/turf-consicious bureaucracies we have now - and that these men need to be given the authority to take action without prior consultation, this nation will be ever more vulnerable.