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KOJISASAHARA—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Aircra line up waiting for take-off at the Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo. ByMarthaMendozaand Justin Pritchard The Associated Press Technologyfirmsincreas- ingly pitch new sensors and software to U.S. airports as a way to bolster exterior se- curity and keep intruders out, but such digital barri- ers come with a hefty price tag and don't always work. An Associated Press in- vestigation this week doc- umented 268 instances in which people hopped over, crawled under, drove cars through or otherwise breached the fences and gates protecting the perim- eters of 31 of the nation's bus- iest airports from January 2004 through January 2015. How to address the prob- lem is up for debate. "There's a lot of things that can be done," said John Pistole, retired director of the Transportation Secu- rity Administration, who, like airport officials, argues the perimeters are secure and that breaches are rare. "The question is whether there's an appetite for pay- ing for it." Congressman Eric Swal- well, D-Calif., said the num- ber of airport breaches over the past decade is cause for action and that new technol- ogies should be installed on perimeters. "Bringing down an air- liner and killing innocent Americans remains our en- emies' highest-value target. Porous airport perimeters are major vulnerabilities that terrorists could exploit," he said. "I'm continuing to call for airports to use tech- nologies that would alert of- ficials the moment a perim- eter is breached." While the TSA is respon- sible for screening passen- gers and baggage, airports are responsible for secur- ing perimeters, typically with a mix of private secu- rity guards and airport po- lice. Airports won't disclose specifics, but some measures are known: Fencing — typ- ically a minimum of 6-feet high — surrounds U.S. air- ports, and it often is topped with barbed or razor wire. Additionally, security gates help restrict access to air- fields. Most major airports also use video cameras, and guards are supposed to pa- trol regularly — but staffing varies. At Los Angeles In- ternational, through which more than 32 million pas- sengers travel each year, the police agency employs some 1,100 law enforcement and civilian personnel. Flori- da's Tampa airport, with about 8 million passengers a year, lists 173 employees in its police agency, 66 of them sworn officers. Some facilities do go be- yond the basics. Located near the Texas-Mexico bor- der, McAllen-Miller Inter- national Airport installed optic fibers in its fences in 2009 over concerns about violence spilling across the Rio Grande. The technol- ogy, which also is used at U.S. nuclear facilities, can immediately detect an in- trusion and send an alert, said Samuel Kassey, vice president of one supplier, LaseOptics Corp. Fi rm s pu sh h ig h- tec h solutions for perimeters AIRPORT INTRUDERS By Jeffrey Collins and Michael Biesecker The Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. Dashboard video shows a police officer making a routine traffic stop. Cell- phone video shows the of- ficer shooting the fleeing motorist in the back. What remains a mystery is what happened during the min- utes in between that led the polite officer to become a killer. The dash cam footage released by state police on Thursday showed North Charleston Officer Mi- chael Thomas Slager pull- ing over black motorist Walter Scott for a broken brake light last weekend. Slager, who is white, has been charged with murder in Scott's death. Saturday's traffic stop opens like so many oth- ers as Scott was stopped in a used Mercedes-Benz he had purchased days ear- lier, footage from the patrol car showed. At the outset, it's a strikingly benign en- counter: The officer is seen walking toward the driver's window, requesting Scott's license and registration. Slager then returns to his cruiser. On the dash cam video, Slager never touches his gun during the stop. He also makes no unreason- able demands or threats. The video also shows Scott beginning to get out of the car, his right hand raised above his head. He then quickly gets back into the car and closes the door. After Slager goes back to his patrol car, minutes later, Scott jumps from his car and runs. Slager chases him. What's missing is what happens from the time the two men run out of the frame of dashboard video to the time picked up in a bystander's cellphone video a few hundred yards away. The cellphone footage starts with Scott getting to his feet and running away, then Slager firing eight shots at the man's back. "It is possible for some- thing to happen in that gap to significantly raise the of- ficer's perception of risk," Seth Stoughton, a former police officer and criminal law professor at the Univer- sity of South Carolina Scott was almost $7,500 behind in child support and had been in jail three times over the issue, but no bench warrants had been issued directing officers to bring him in. His family has said that he might have run be- cause he was behind on payments again and didn't want to go back to jail. He last paid child support in 2012, court records show. Police and Slager's first lawyer initially said the of- ficer fired in self-defense during a scuffle over his department-issued Taser. Within days of Saturday's encounter, the eyewitness video surfaced and im- mediately changed per- ceptions of what had hap- pened, leading authorities to charge Slager with mur- der and fire him from the police force he'd worked on for five years. On Friday, Slager's mother, Karen Sharpe, told ABC's "Good Morning America" that she couldn't believe her son — who loved being an officer and had a baby on the way — would have been involved in the incident. She said she's tak- ing one day at a time and hasn't watched the cell- phone video that helped bring about Slager's arrest. "I just have to let it be and hope God takes care of everybody involved — not only my family but the Scott family because I know they're grieving just like I'm grieving, so I want them to know that," she said. There is almost nothing in Slager's police person- nel file to suggest that his superiors considered him a rogue officer capable of murdering a man during a traffic stop. In the com- munity he served, however, people say this reflects what's wrong with polic- ing today: Officers nearly always get the last word when citizens complain. "We've had through the years numerous similar complaints, and they all seem to be taken lightly and dismissed without any obvious investigation," the Rev. Joseph Darby, vice president of the Charleston branch of the National As- sociation for the Advance- ment of Colored People, said Thursday. As a steady crowd left flowers, stuffed animals, notes and protest signs in the empty lot where Scott was shot, many said police in South Carolina's third- largest city routinely dis- miss complaints of petty brutality and harassment, even when eyewitnesses can attest to police misbe- havior. The result, they say, is that officers are regarded with a mixture of distrust and fear. SOUTH CAROLINA Gap in video record of police shooting DAVID GOLDMAN — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Asia Cromwell, of Charleston South Carolina, visits a makeshi memorial at the scene where Walter Scott was killed by a North Charleston police officer. COURTESY OF L. 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