Originally Posted by Spiff
"You can't professionalize until you federalize." - Comrade Tom Daschle.
That has a pretty catchy jingle to it.
I'd stipulate that theft numbers may have even been higher pre TSA; but then there was one organization to hold accountable -- the airline.
TSA screeners are people too and out of a 40,000 plus workforce, to catch 20 crooks, that number is pretty low. But for a uniformed federal agent to steal from a passengers unlocked checked baggage is, I think, worse than an airline employee stealing. It is in addition to theft a violation of the public trust.