Originally Posted by
SgtScott31
If you are such a wizard in keeping the terrorists from plotting their crimes and succeeding without eliminating all of "our liberties", feel free to become a senator, head of DHS, or even President.
Dear President Elect Obama:
Please, while making cabinet nominees, appoint Mr. Spiff as Head of DHS. We will all be so much safer. Thank you.
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Originally Posted by
SgtScott31
In or out of the Terminal, I apprehend folks quite often
This is one of the differences between you and the TSA screeners, and why their "Look for the Big Catch" mentality is warping their outlook.
According to the TSA, they find an average of about two guns per day. That is 700 per year. Do the math. If there was no turnover, with 45,000 TSOs, it means if each TSO worked a 40 year career the odds are any one TSO would find ONE gun in their entire career. One gun for every 2000 4 oz tubes of toothpaste they confiscate. They are looking for the needle in a haystack terrorist.
OTOH, unless you only work cold cases, you are directed to bad guys and associate with so many more of them. When you get a radio call "bank robbery in progress", you KNOW there is a Bad Guy, you KNOW where they are because you got told: a bank six blocks from you, and you KNOW there is a 100% chance you need to find a Bad Guy in the next 15 minutes.
A far different life from being told "you will probably find One Really Bad Guy in your entire 40 year career."
SgtScott31 might get 10 radio calls per day and end up arresting 3 people. If so 1/3 of the public you interact with are alleged criminals(innocent until proven guilty in a court of law). TSA screens 2 million pax per day and finds ZERO terrorists on average. A high percentage of everyone SgtScott31 talks to are arrested. 9,999,999 out of 10,000,000 passengers TSA screens are NOT criminals. See the difference?