Originally Posted by
PTravel
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.
Nazi. How .... original.
Again, you can put forth all the different numbers you like, but you cannot prove them one way or the other. And neither can I.
As far as the BDO process, you and halls have belief's. Nothing more. The process has not been challenged in court yet, but I'm sure it will. Hey, if you truly are a lawyer, maybe it will be you. But until that happens, the BDO process serves as reasonable belief for additional administrative screening. You can believe otherwise as much as you like, but you can only prove it in a court. Trying to prove it here is like a pastor preaching to the choir. Not an unbiased mind in the lot.