Fewer Than 1% Arrested From TSA's "Behavior Detection"

An anonymous reader writes "Fewer than 1% of airline passengers singled out at airports using the much vaunted 'suspicious behavior detection' techniques are arrested, Transportation Security Administration figures show. The TSA program, launched in early 2006, looks for terrorists using a controversial surveillance method based on behavior detection and has led to more than 160,000 people in airports receiving scrutiny, such as a pat-down search or a brief interview. It has resulted in only 1,266 arrests, often on charges of carrying drugs or fake IDs, the TSA said. The TSA has not publicly said whether it has caught a terrorist through the program." In related news, the odds of sanity coming to the TSA plummeted today when Schneier said he's not interested in the top job there.

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Re:seems to me

[__aamnbm3774]

I find airports immensely stressful, seriously so, to the point that I take the train

sheesh, calm down already. It ain't that bad (even if you fall into one of those 'special' ethnicity groups).
You need to get out of your mothers basement more often.

Re:Terrorists act suspiciously?

[theaveng]

In times of war, you don't need to prove guilt. You can kill anyone who your government labels "enemy" and Bin Laden is enemy number one. It's no different than if I killed Saddam Hussein or Adolf Hitler. I don't think anyone would cry; in fact I'd probably get a Congressional Medal of Honor.

Second: A terrorist might be nervous, yes, but a lot of them are not. They feel like soldiers. They feel their cause is just.

Stop the paranoid talk

[gsgriffin]

You should all move to Montana. The police here will only pull you over when driving with a broken tail light on your car. The rest of the time, you're allowed to live your life they way you want... so long as you don't hurt anyone. You all must be living in fear because of what you do.

Re:In that case,

[DrLang21]

slavery is perfectly ok

Only from neighboring nations. The US was clearly in the wrong for using African slaves. Only Mexican and Canadian slaves are ok for the US under God's law.