Originally Posted by
cbn42
This program sounds like an excuse to cover up the failures of PreCheck. Not enough airlines are participating, not enough people are signing up for Global Entry, name mismatch problems are keeping people from using it, and so on. Setting aside a lane for PreCheck at each terminal results in congestion in the other lanes. This program seems to be designed to remedy that by shifting more people into the PreCheck lanes.
I would be interested to know on what basis people will be pulled into the PreCheck lanes. My guess is that it will be based on crowd level. If the checkpoint is congested, a few people will be "invited" to go through PreCheck, just like they currently open WTMD lanes to reduce congestion. Of course, there is going to be a racial bias to it, regardless of what anyone claims.
The TSA wants to make a lot more use of commercial database (mis)information and use that to determine which currently non-PreCheck-enrolled individuals should be given the LLL treatment going forward even if not enrolling in PreCheck. This will be in some ways a return to the stupid CAPPS(II) system ways that the TSA wants.
This pursued change is a tell that the TSA isn't satisfied with just (In)SecureFlight and being limited to using just primarily government-created-and-administered blacklists. Rather, the TSA wants its own enlarged fiefdom and expanded powers.
The system the TSA wants will indeed have a racial bias to it. The commercial databases mess up individuals who are ethnic minorities far more frequently than it messes up individuals who are part of the ethnic majority. Then there are those in the TSA who are bigoted, and that will also further the racial bias under any new system relying upon "questioning" of passengers.