Eyecue, We know that most TSA screeners are conscientious and want to send us through the security perimeter as quickly as you can. FF'ers es, dump everything in our computer cases, slide our laptops into the tubs, pull off our and inner coats to send them through the machines. At one airport you must keep your boarding pass in hand, and at another it is fine to leave it in your jacket pocket. We can't tell which, because the TSA keeps changing the rules. Now we have gone out and bought WTMD friendly shoes, like Ecco's and Rockports, but we can't take advantage of them, because profile the shoes, instead of the wearer.

I learned a lot in twenty years of law enforcement, before I started a business career. One of the nuggets I took away from "profiling" criminals, mopes, and average citizens, is that they always give themselves away when you observe them carefully and interact with them. Their shoes didn't, their clothes didn't, their hairstyle didn't, but their behavior did.

We are tired of behaving in a way that is designed to get us through the airport and still being treated like crooks, by screeners who "suggest" that we remove our shoes. I, for one, am fed up when I pass through the magnatometers, then having to bend over with no supports, to put my shoes back on, while keeping an eye on my bags, computer, coats and being told to "move it along, mister" by screeners who haven't glanced once at me.

I started out thinking that the TSA offered a reasonable approach to passenger safety, considering the alternatives. Now, with hardened cockpits, and passenger resolve, the TSA security measures are less relevant than the private screeners were. You want to "profile" to make us safer, how about evaluating the individual passing through the WTMD, and not his or her footwear?