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The security standards have not improved - tsa fails more than 90% of their audits, and there are many private security professionals screaming into the void ab
by komali2 7y ago
The security standards have not improved - tsa fails more than 90% of their audits, and there are many private security professionals screaming into the void about the pointlessness of TSA's methodologies.
Easy example - the addition of tsa creates huge lines that are excellent, dense targets for terrorists.
- jessriedel 7y agoThe TSA is indeed embarrassing, but since we don't have audit data from the private security in previous eras we don't actually know if things are getting better or worse. There is also the notable fact that airplane-based terrorism in the US is now extraordinarily low, significantly lower than before 9/11. The causality here is hard to disentangle. In any case, I purposefully said "tightened" not "improved". All I need for my comment is that the rules have become more stringent since 9/11 (e.g., shoes off, no liquids, etc.), which is obviously true.