<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by The Unknown Screener:
The resoning is....
Literally MILLIONS of bags every day are screened.
Now, if every one of those bags was locked, and say 5% alarmed (thats over 5 times the actual number) then the backlog would result in tens of thousands of bags not making it onto the aircraft. TIME is the main factor here, not a desire to rifle through anyones bags.
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I didn't ask for a reason. I told you I already knew the reason and it isn't good enough.
It's a known fact that TSA's false positive readings ratio is TOO HIGH. Last figure I heard was 30% false positive. What about the false negatives. That's really the "scary" factor. Do you think they run a car through a CTX machine at the white house? No they use mirrors to look under and dogs to alert them to TNT/explosives. TSA should try this. They can easily afford them with the unlimited, unaccountable, budget they have at their waste.
The fact is TSA can do nothing more than private screeners did to make us "safe". I'd rather have it in the hands of the private sector than in the hands of a bunch of unaccountable Goons with deep pockets and dumb ideas of what security is.
[This message has been edited by CarmelGreg (edited Nov 19, 2003).]