Police on Planes

Police officers on planes aren’t a good idea. IDs can be forged, cover letters the same. The airlines aren’t going to call each police agency that an officer may belong to and verify the ID and permission of the chief for that officer to fly with a gun.

As a retired deputy sheriff who has had jail experience, I can tell you the outside gate opens for no inmate with a hostage, period. I’ve never seen an escape tried in L.A. County this way because every inmate knows this rule. The same should be the rule with airplanes. Make the doors to the cockpit strong enough so that nothing shy of C-4 will open them. If explosives are used, it will cause the plane to crash so the terrorist’s target won’t be reached anyway.

Robert Gonzales

Camarillo