Hope the supervisor is bringing security with them after 12 hours.
I also wondering if during some of the more extensive renovations if they will be installing more security cameras in the hallways of the resorts.
Normally, these checks/trash pickups were completed in the morning. If we left and came back at noon, it was done.
Under the current policy, they aren’t going to check twice in a day. Not with the manpower they’ve allotted.
So. If they check the room at 10am, and most likely won’t start checking again until morning housekeeping ramps up at about 8am the next day, that’s already a 22 hr gap virtually guaranteed between checks.
Throw an occupied sign on the door the next morning and they likely won’t come back until afternoon. That’s more than 24 hrs between checks.
This policy can never be designed to catch somebody in the act of building a sniper’s nest. As somebody suggested earlier in the thread, it’s the equivalent of a lock on the front door: it might provide the insurance companies with some piece of mind, and it’ll probably deter someone looking for a less secure theater, but it’s not going to prevent somebody determined to act.
Nor does it need to do so.
After 9/11, crashing passenger planes into buildings became a practical impossibility. Even on 9/11 it became impossible; as the 4th plane passengers became aware of what was happening, they prevented the attack even if they didn’t save the plane. No plane hijacker in the West today would be allowed to proceed to their targets by passive passengers hoping to be negotiated to eventual freedom. This is a different world than 9/10/01.
Just as the attempted shoe bomber means that you have to take your shoes off at the airport. Not likely how that’s attempted again in the future.
I’m not sure if the hotel industry has done enough to prevent another attack. I know this policy is only a gesture that sacrifices more in privacy than it gains in security. But still: Just as consumer behavior changed the potential future success of another plane crashing into a building, I believe that it’ll have an effect here:
Would you attend a concert underneath high rise hotel room windows next week? The security of those venues will change, or their locations will change, because the promoters want people to come.
The bottom line is that with big events like Las Vegas and 9/11, the attack worked because it was unexpected. That’s not very reproducible. The next big attack that works will most likely work because its methodology will be unexpected.
In the meantime, we’ll prepare for the next battle by trying to fight the last one. Same as per usual.