Originally Posted by
gsoltso
I do not have the attitude you are quoting, and the vast majority of folks I have worked with do not display that attitude - those that do here, are quickly corrected by most of their peers before an STSO even has a chance to get involved. You can petition for different screening protocols for children, but if the search of children is vastly scaled back, it becomes an easy threat matrix for ne'er do wells. That is the sad reality we live with nowadays, there are many folks out there that would use a child to further their goals in a heart beat. The waistband of pants is one of the easiest ways to conceal threat items, I have found knives and even rounds for a weapon in the waist band of pants before, I may be leaping here, but that change about just because of items being found in the waist band (I could be wrong).
I apologize that I wasn't more clear.
I would be more than satisfied if we returned to the WTMD and occasional swabbing
for everyone.
Again, the evidence is dicey at best with regard to the WBI catching people like the pantie bomber and catching all firearms.
I have always been willing to screen entering (and even exiting) when I go to work - I had to do it when I worked at a nuke storage facility and it does not faze me in the least.
That's great and everything, but it is irrelevant to the actual practice.
Since I tend to all but live at PHX T4 these days either flying out or waiting to meet my spouse landside, I can tell you that the biggest hole in security in the entire system happens around 7 PM on Fridays when an airport worker appears pushing a large pallet stacked with boxes with goods for the restaurants and shops airside at PHX T4. He sails right past the Einstein's Bagel shop and down the aisle where passengers are heading out of the sterile area.
He is never stopped. He is never questioned. He is never searched. He just nods and moves on.
You will never convince me that a 6-year-old little girl in New Orleans is a greater threat to aviation than an airport worker who gets paid to haul pallets of sealed boxes.
But the TSA has made that determination.