Originally Posted by
DaveBlaine
I think we're coming at it from two different approaches. Let me try a metaphor. Remember when you were a kid and left home alone and your mom told you not to use the stove? Well, what if you were empowered to use that stove instead of waiting for an adult to get home?
Same thing with the TSO's. Instead of waiting for them to get a police officer (in the metaphor "an adult") we empower them to do what needs to be done. And then we don't assign any bad apple cops to airports. None would be needed. Put cops back out on the streets where they can crack down on street crime.
You are joking, right?
A TSA Supervisor who has no authority to arrest, threatened to arrest a passenger at a airport in the Northwest in December 2014 - because the passenger had a shirt with the "f" word on it.
A TSA manager refused to permit medically exempt liquids because, in part the traveler only paid less than a few dollars per bottle.
A TSA Supervisor tells a passenger along the lines You acting ignorant like that, you deserve to get a pat-down; then later the same supervisor "steals" the passengers cell phone.
A TSA Supervisor berates a passenger for filming and says "you better respect this badge".
And you want these people to have arrest authority? No thank you.