Originally Posted by
TSORon
That depends entirely on how you define the term success.
Well that's easy.
What percentage of people hassled by BDOs posed a threat to aviation? I'll even let you include in that statistic, such dire and heinous threats as possession of pot, unpaid parking tickets, and having $4,783 in your possession.
Is it 10%? 1%? I'm betting it's close to .01% and, if you remove pot smokers, illegal parkers and well-paid young people, that number drops to 0.
This is America, TSORon. The government doesn't get to stop whomever they want, whenever they want, without a reasonable suspicion and/or probable cause, just because it's in the name of security.
You are aware that is a critical difference between U.S. LEOs and, oh say, the East German Stasi, the Soviet Union's KGB and, of our course, our good friends the Nazi's Gestapo. Here, citizens are not required to prove their innocence.