Two TSA Officers Fired for Scheme to Grope Attractive Men at Denver Airport

Henrin · Apr 21, 2015

Objective Voice said:
While I would agree with you that one terrible incident shouldn't have necessarily meant that we systematically change our entire airport security protocols, the lapses in airport security not just at one national airport but three (minimum; and we still don't know to this day how many more hijackings were planned but weren't carried out) required us to change how airport security was being conducted.

I understand that people have this distrust in government from privacy issues to efficiency, but until TSA security protocols at each major U.S. airport was splintered with each airport doing their own thing. That may be fine for personal security protections but not when the public at- large needs broad- based security measures at our airports that are consistent. The only way this happens is for such security measures to come from a single, unified source.

Airports are still not all doing the same thing. For example, some airports don't have body scanners and the ones that do don't all use them to the same degree.

Objective Voice · Apr 21, 2015

Summerwind said:
Tell me the last time one got through the TSA and hijacked a plane? Whether they catch them or are just an effective deterrent doesn't really matter.

I say being an effective deterrent is just as good as catching them. In one case, you stop the threat in progress before the terrorist activity is carried out. In the other, those who would commit the act think twice before doing it. Either way, it's a win-win for air travelers in my book. Any other chatter on the matter is just ideological babble and misses the point of the TSA entirely. No, the system isn't perfect but when there hasn't been another terrorist airline hijacking in 14 years, I'd say it's because the system - despite its drawbacks - does work.

Objective Voice · Apr 21, 2015

Henrin said:
Airports are still not all doing the same thing. For example, some airports don't have body scanners and the ones that do don't all use them to the same degree.

Maybe not, but at least they're all working from the same play book.

Two TSA Officers Fired for Scheme to Grope Attractive Men at Denver Airport

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