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Old Dec 20, 2010 | 1:20 am
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Lara21
 
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Originally Posted by SnallaBolaget
When I was still working in airport security (long ago now, and before all the craziness) we once screened 1.500 soldiers coming from an exercise, going from military to civilian aircraft / airport with nothing but rubber gloves, wands and a carry-on x-ray machine. It didn't take all that long either, and none of them got even a knife through. More important, none of them felt agitated, invaded, pissed off, miffed or abused after their screening.

I'm not saying that's what should be done, I'm just thinking that relying too much on the machines makes the whole process alien to everyone, and the goal might be that much harder to achieve. People respond better to people than machines.

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That might be well and good if The TSA Agents are respectful and treat the passengers with dignity, but because the procedures are SSI and the passengers have no way of knowing currently what the correct procedures are when it comes to what the TSA Agents are allowed to do to them and because of the TSA being allowed to hide behind that shady policy with the secrecy rules. Some TSA Agents are using that as a powertrip to bully the passengers into submitting to whatever they tell the passenger is required for them to submit too if they want to fly today.

Let me give an example of what I mean. A teenage girl, say 13 to 15 years old, who has to travel alone for the firsttime for the required visit to the parent who doesn't have custody. Now due to the current rules in place. That teenage girl could very easily be selected for a private screening and taken to the backroom and ordered to take her clothes off. If she is the type who is easily scared and is afraid of getting into trouble. She would more than likely do everything she is told to do. Especially under the threat of do you want to fly today.

Now the TSA has this idea that because there are going to be two TSA Agents in the room during the private screening. That nothing bad is going to happen to the passenger.

It has been proven time and time again in real law enforcement situations that LEO's themselves have been known to commit illegal activity against a suspect in custody which is clearly against the Law Enforcemment Policy on how to deal with a suspect and that has happened when two or more LEO's were in the room, and they would lie and cover up for the one who commited the illegal activity. That is the reason for survelance cameras in the cars, jails and prisons to record how LEO's are treating the suspect as well as for the safety of the LEO.

According to some who post on this board. There is no survelance cameras in the areas where the TSA Agents are doing the private screening to record how the passengers are being treated during those screenings. And in the areas where there are survelance camera's alot of times the passenger is placed where they don't get seen all the time by the camera.

So it is obvious that some TSA Agents aren't going to do any better than some LEO's when it comes to breaking the rules and committing illegal activity, and the TSA's secrecy is making it easier for TSA Agents to commit that illegal activity against passengers, and the passenger has no way of really getting justice if they get abused during the screening process if it is a situation where it is two TSA Agents saying it happened this way. While the passenger is saying no it happened this way if there is no video to prove it did or didn't happen, or they are out of view of the camera alot during the screening process where the camera's are and the camera doesn't catch alot of information during the passenger being screened.

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