ABSTRACT
This chapter takes a slightly different tack, and talks more specifically about the broader implications of techno-security fortification, especially as it relates to the kind of military and economic forces Eisenhower talked about decades ago in his famous “military industrial complex” speech. Techno-security fortification is result of several kinds of transactions. These transactions also include tactic and strategy sharing, as when police bring their high-tech gear into schools and train teachers, school resource officers, and administrators in lockdown and “hallway sweep” tactics. Transactions between schools and security businesses account for much of techno-security buildup in schools. But also, so do transactions between school personnel and police that are made possible by federal grants and even by the ideas of ex–police commissioners such as Howard Safir and others in law enforcement and military who use their positions to promote techno-security. Security professionals convince us to buy into techno-security fortification, but transaction depends as well on the consumer's end of the deal.
