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Are you suggesting the BDOs are so intuitive that they can tell which crime is being committed and then only act on ones that are a threat to aviation?

This is incorrect. BDOs cannot detect threats and, therefore, they cannot focus on them. TSA doesn't even claim they can detect threats. Instead, they claim the ability to detect suspicious behavior because that behavior might be an indication of a threat to commercial aviation. But they can't and don't do this. There is no scientific evidence that shows this program is anything more that a giant steaming pile of ****. You would think that BDOs would occasional and randomly stumble into success.

In this case, the TSO was doing something illegal. The theory goes that people doing such things would act suspiciously and that BDOs are capable of detecting this suspicious behavior. The former is questionable. The latter is a lie.

Given the BDO program is clearly a load of crap, people tend to post sarcastic, correct, and very telling comments, such as: These are Behavior Detection Officers fer cryin' out loud. Why can't they detect the behaviors of a clerk doing something illegal? (Hint: see sentence above that ends in ****.)

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