Have we yet exceeded 12% nation-wide absentee rates for the TSA?
Originally Posted by
tom911
Might be as easy as activating the National Guard. Aren't those the folks we already see on patrol at Penn Station in New York City and at the Port Authority airports? Might entail a lot of hand searches and pat downs, but they'd surely get passengers moving if there were no TSA screeners. I wonder if some of them are already tasked to Super Bowl venues.
I doubt that the average National Guard member using the baggage scanners would be anywhere close to being more effective at finding WEIs than the current TSA screeners using the machines. Using a WTMD and doing dog and pony show patdowns are easily replicated, but the effectiveness of scanner use is much more up in the air and varies based on training and experience. And then there is the whole issue of having to deal with the ridiculous ID w/boarding pass checks if the National Guard were to do this.
We really should get rid of the TSA as we know it and put this stuff in the hands of airports and airlines again and end the passenger ID checks.