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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.
Not all flying things are ducks.
It may not be very effective, but it's way more politically correct than their old arrest strategy, "if he's brown, take him down"
The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid middle-class neighbors' wallets and give it to the lazy.
Is this what your father used to do?
She made the willows dance
By sharing it with the pilot.
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For the actual quote:
"Blessed is the one who grabs your little children and smashes them against a rock."
Psalm 137:9
Honestly, all this 'using a Buick to swat a fly nonsense has to end sometime.
Why end it? It's likely helping keep GM afloat.
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Are you serious? You want to lump illegal drugs into the same category as a pocket knife whose blade is 1/2" too long? Give me a break; no-one is advocating arresting folks for the "pisant (sic) little laws", like oral sex being illegal on Tuesdays in Omaha. As for fake IDs, there's a major difference between your average citizen with a fake ID so they can drink, and a terrorist with a fake ID to cover the fact that they're known to have been involved in urban warfare. It's time everyone realizes that the Police et al are here to protect you; yes there ARE crooked cops, but there's crooked sysadmins, lawyers, CEOs, and pizza delivery boys, too. Grow up, and lose the adolescent "the Man is out to get me!" thought processes, what say?
Last night I played a blank tape at full volume. The mime next door went nuts.
Could you obfuscate that with some more negatives please
My apologies. Please allow me to clarify.
It's not even a non-tractioned slope. It's not an outright truth. Just because something is not non-legal does not mean that we don't want to not keep it in full view.
I see the glass as full with a FoS of 2.
Nah, he'd just fly really slow with the windows down.
Oh, I see your point.
"The cup is in turn designed for holding hot or cold liquids, and has an open rim and closed base." --US Patent #5425497
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