Originally Posted by
SATTSO
This thread was started to highlight cases that TSA "messed up". My point is, so? It happens and it will happen with ANY agency. But uless you put it it perspective, as in hlout of how many total, then it becomes sort of pointless to talk about it. We have no data out of all the arrest and possible convictions because of what TSOs found; it's all a guess, thus, somewhat pointless to speculate about.
Except that, in our particular brand of jurisprudence, we place a higher value on making sure that the rights of individuals are preserved. Hence, the fact that we (as a society) are willing to let guilty people go free if those involved in their arrest were not scrupulous in preserving the rights of the accused --- because it's the preservation of those rights that helps ensure that the innocent aren't falsely convicted.
Sure, we can play a relative numbers game if you want. But then, let's play fair. TSA publishes on its home page, every week, the raw number of passengers who were arrested, tried to bring a firearm through, artfully concealed a prohibited item, or caused a checkpoint breach. But it doesn't publish the raw number of passengers who did none of those things, so there's no way to evaluate what those numbers mean. Right?