<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">In my opinion, if the pax and crew have to remove everything to cross the checkpoint, then the TSA staff should do exactly the same thing - every single time they cross from a non-secure partition to a secure area, and that includes shoes. </font>
Crew doesn't have the shoe rule applied to them either. They fit into the group of people that are excluded from that procedure.