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Government Study Finds TSA Misconduct Up 26% In 3 Years
rullywowr writes "CNN reports that a recent government study found TSA misconduct has risen sharply in three years. Most have heard of the problems such as stealing, but the report also notes that some employees are sleeping on the job, taking bribes, and letting friends/family through the checkpoints without screening."
While not specifically mentioned in the report, notable cases of theft by TSA agents include a 2012 case in which two former employees pleaded guilty to stealing $40,000 from a checked bag at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, and a 2011 guilty plea from an officer who admitted stealing between $10,000 and $30,000 from travelers at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
And what does the poor schmoe who had his travel money stolen? Did the TSA make all those people whole?
Doubt it.
More then likely the local agent supervisor threw a from at them and told them to fill it out and mail it in and if they objected further, they would be threatened or at the very least, their balls busted by being "detained" and missing their flight. And for those who haven't flown in the last decade, flights are always booked to the max so good luck getting on the next flight - or the next - or the next - or the....
They are not all bad. It's just the 99% of them who make the other 1% look bad, is all.
Yes, i thought it would be higher than 26%...
I think we could probably just say this across the board in our government...
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What is wrong with social security?
It is fully funded for decades and simply upping the cut for contributions with inflation would extend it even further.
Collecting from folks who take $1 salaries and get stock instead would help even more.
TSA is the main reason I have been refusing to fly to and within the US for years now. Colleagues, friends and acquaintances reporting the same. The security craze is costing the US money.
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What is wrong with social security?
Absolutely everything? To start with, there is the fact I'm going to pay tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands, probably) of dollars into it and won't see a single dime of it back, because it will be bankrupt a decade or more before I'll even come closer to considering retiring. The system is inherently and utterly broken in a world were people are living longer and having fewer children. It cannot remain viable unless there are far fewer people retired than working, which, with the modern birthrate and age of living, is impossible. The only people who will benefit from the system are those who are already retired or relatively close to it. People under 30 or so? Won't see a dime from it. People in their 40s are likely to retire, only to discover the money drying up soon after.
Social Security was devised in a world with radically different demographics than the current one. Unless our society undergoes a massive reversion (which would have negative impacts in other areas), it's a totally non-viable system.
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
You don't think the fact that they are paid like mall security is something to mock?
They are supposed to be this professional force of protection for our nation's airports and we pay them like the guy guarding the Orange Julius. One of these things is not like the other.
It will be paying out 71% in 2047 so exactly how young are you?
Maybe the headline should read "TSA cover-up of misconduct 26% less effective".
I'm aging rapidly, I bought a new game and had no idea if my machine was good for it.