Originally Posted by
cordelli
Posted this afternoon on the Daily Caller
The young, male TSA officer walks slowly down the line of airline passengers waiting to clear security. He looks down at tickets, up at faces, then points to those whom he selects for additional screening. In a theoretically possible, albeit unlikely, random sample, when the officer reaches the end of the long queue, we find that every passenger he has chosen for further scrutiny is female.
Read more:
http://dailycaller.com/2010/12/06/is...#ixzz17Md43EPx
Interesting article, I see two (
at least for now) nefarious scenarios (
aside from the male/female thing). First is that if you have to pat someone down, why not choose who your potential pat-down is (
figuring if you seed the AIT line, you're more likely to not have to pat-down a male). The second could be the "least work possible" theory, in that they could be attempting to do the least amount of work possible, and are reverse-profiling females as least likely to be a threat, and hence most-likely to pass through security quickly, and least likely to involve extra work.
Not saying that it's happening, yet if male TSO's are statistically and verifiably picking all females, either it's an issue with the TSO, or the TSO is being
told to pick all females (
intelligence about a possible female bomber?).