Originally Posted by
theddo
The TSA is charged with being right when they say someone isn't carrying weapons. They do a poor job of that, but that's what they are supposed to do. Their supervisiors thus accordingly accept a higher rate of false positives than false negatives.
If you have opinions on that you should probably contact your senator or congressman. I have a feeling not many would have the position "lets increase the amount of weapons smuggled through the TSA to reduce wait times" wouldn't fare well come election time.
And that's what it boils down to. The TSOs are public employees, if they have more work that means longer wait times for you and doesn't make any difference for them.
From government testing we already know that only 5% of weapons aren't getting through TSA security. Seems improving that number would be something that all of us would be interested in.
I'm sure that TSA will try to hide from public disclosure the horrible false alarm rate of ETD machines used by TSA, purchased with our tax dollars, but if that number was released I would bet that the false alarm rate is over 99%, understanding that a false alarm is any positive test where no WEI is found.
Wouldn't fewer false alarms be better for TSA? Certainly seems that fewer resolution screenings would better utilize available manpower and allow more focus on potential threats.
I have no idea why anyone would think that improving ETD results is somehow a lowering of security. I would think that all of us would be in favor of better, more efficient TSA security.
Maintaining status quo doesn't seem to do anything good for anyone.