Fortunately, stealing from a passenger's checked or carry-on luggage is far too easy and too lucrative to allow bribery to compete among screeners' desire for extra cash. Wealth and property gained through theft at an airport presently outweighs the amount of money to be made from bribes. As soon as the bribers can make accepting bribes more profitable and less risky than baggage theft, we'll see acts of bribery escalate.