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The article is originally from CNBC with the headline "Why still terror risk, after all that security money spent?". The MSN headline says "Big security spending hasn't lowered terror risk" - says who??? nobody, just whoever wrote the headline on MSN, for the apparent purpose of making it more of an attention grab.
The article isn't just about the money, although that's part of it - MSN is the one that put it on their Money page.
Mostly the article has interviews with two private investigators, one who runs a company that does 'risk management'. He said his company was involved in helping prevent about 20 potential terror attacks in NYC in the past two years. So that seems to be an indication of some lowering of risks of terror attacks.
But do we read about that? No, because those potential attacks never happened, so there was no news story to report. So we don't always know about every time that security measures did work and that's where at least some of the money goes, into prevention.
Not that there isn't room for improvement. The example in the story was a busy holiday performance where maybe security wasn't as tight because they're trying to get a large crowd into the venue. So for those situations they probably need to look at how to get everyone in securely and in a timely manner.
The article isn't just about the money, although that's part of it - MSN is the one that put it on their Money page.
Mostly the article has interviews with two private investigators, one who runs a company that does 'risk management'. He said his company was involved in helping prevent about 20 potential terror attacks in NYC in the past two years. So that seems to be an indication of some lowering of risks of terror attacks.
But do we read about that? No, because those potential attacks never happened, so there was no news story to report. So we don't always know about every time that security measures did work and that's where at least some of the money goes, into prevention.
Not that there isn't room for improvement. The example in the story was a busy holiday performance where maybe security wasn't as tight because they're trying to get a large crowd into the venue. So for those situations they probably need to look at how to get everyone in securely and in a timely manner.