Safety
Survey: AOPA’s Airport Watch works
Airports that adopted the voluntary security measures of AOPA’s Airport Watch program saw a steep decline in crime the year after the program’s launch, acc

Airports that adopted the voluntary security measures of AOPA’s Airport Watch program saw a steep decline in crime the year after the program’s launch, according to a survey of 122 Pennsylvania noncommercial airports conducted by an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide educator.

Of the respondent airports, those that adopted the recommended measures saw a decline in crime from 2002–the year before AOPA created the program–to 2004.
Those airports that did not adopt the procedures saw an increase in crime over the same period.