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"Airport security is not useless" While that's a pretty extreme statement, airport security's usefulness is definitely in question. Most other airports outside
by KerryJones 3y ago
"Airport security is not useless"
While that's a pretty extreme statement, airport security's usefulness is definitely in question. Most other airports outside the US are significantly less strict (don't have to take off shoes, for instance), and there have been tons of youtube videos showing how you could easily slip in weapons of various sorts through airport security.
It's practically a meme about the fact that they throw out all "might-be-bomb" liquids into trashcans right next to you -- in the same receptacle.
It seems much more like security theatre, and maybe thanks to terrorist groups, but more thanks to sensationalist media + clever people who take advantage of the capitalistic system (one of the heads of the TSA just-so-happens to make the machines they use to scan your luggage, "private" business on the side that he gets paid for.)
In addition, TSA Precheck / Clear / Global Entry are all ways to pay to have less inconvenience -- but have you seen any statistics they've been able to give out about stopped terrorist attempts? Don't you think that would be a thing that would be promoted if it was happening?
- raspasov 3y agoAnecdotally, some of the worst/slowest/tedious airport security I have experience was outside the USA in recent years. In the US, even if there _is_ a tedious process, at least everything feels efficient, and appear quite standardized.
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago> even if there _is_ a tedious process, at least everything feels efficient What does this actually mean?
- dannyw 3y agoThere’s no security officers sitting on their phones playing some game and chatting to each other, a common occurrence in SEA airports.
- gymbeaux 3y agoBut I bet they have better bedside manners than TSA personnel. I really feel for the TSA “agent” who has to just sit and make sure nobody goes the wrong way through the “exit only” corridor that leads out of the terminal.
- BostonEnginerd 3y agoI tend to agree. In the last ten years or so, the TSA operations have markedly improved. I’m saying this as someone who flew 80k-100kmi/yr for the last 15yr. Once precheck became a thing, time to go through security is almost always less than 5m.