Police: TSA agent at JFK stole $5K from passenger
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Police: TSA agent at JFK stole $5K from passenger
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/02...rom-passenger/
Yet another reason to demand that your belongings be visible if you're opting out.
Yet another reason to demand that your belongings be visible if you're opting out.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/02...rom-passenger/
Yet another reason to demand that your belongings be visible if you're opting out.
Yet another reason to demand that your belongings be visible if you're opting out.
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- "I want to watch you pull a fresh pair of gloves out of the box."
- "By 'resistance', do you mean my testicles and penis? Yes or no?"
So how would this go?
Me: "My belongings are right there, I insist on having full view of them while you grope me."
TS"O": "No, you can't have view of your belongings."
Me: "Not true; you actually want to steal my belongings. I want a law enforcement officer here right now."
Forget having a LEO witness the grope; I want a LEO to watch my belongings during the grope.
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Wait, the chains of command or the bucks doesn't simply stop there, it goes higher & higher.
So, it's now no longer an isolated case as "innocent until proven guilty ..." but several "agents" assigned to different facilities, unrelated and not patterned meltdown of the system ... (as I can hear/see/read about the rationale coming to their defenses)
It's hard to believe that EWR and LGA are off the charts on theft, given their records lately (shocking as it might be)
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/02...rom-passenger/
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Schmid, who lived in Brooklyn, had worked for the TSA for 4 years, TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/02...#ixzz1lFidctCF
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/02...#ixzz1lFidctCF
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FoxNews hacked-off a great AP article about TSA Officers who've been caught stealin'
Associated Press:
Police: TSA agent at JFK stole $5K from passenger, latest in series of TSA theft allegations
February 2, 2012
(Posted at Washington Post dot com)
The full AP article is great!
The AP tells us how long the arrested Transportation Security Officer had been employed by TSA (4.5 years), then includes the obligatory TSA Spokesperson "very high standards" quote, then contrasts those "high standards" against TSA's actual performance.
Here's a short quote:
The 31-year-old Schmid was arrested on a charge of grand larceny and suspended pending an investigation. Her attorney’s name wasn’t immediately known.
Schmid, who lived in Brooklyn, had worked for the TSA for 4 years, TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said.
“We do hold our officers to very high standards, and we have a zero tolerance policy for theft in the workplace,” Farbstein said.
It’s the latest in a series of recent theft allegations against TSA employees:
Again, the full AP article is great. The AP has a great format for covering TSA: Describe latest arrest, insert obligatory "highest standards" guote from TSA spokesperson, then shred the TSA quote by simply listing recent arrests of TSA officers at other airports.
Last edited by RatherBeOnATrain; Feb 2, 2012 at 12:30 pm Reason: typo
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I am quite pleased that the TSA is gaining media coverage again for this epidemic of crime. It is much easier for infrequent fliers to sympathize with multiple complaints of stolen money and iPads than it is for them to label the anti-TSA crowd as "conspiracy theorists" and "people who are paranoid about radiation and electromagnetic energy."
Maybe, just maybe, if this keeps up, the camel's back will finally break.
Maybe, just maybe, if this keeps up, the camel's back will finally break.
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Foxnews posted a short, hacked-off snippet (only five paragraphs) of the AP article. The full version of the AP article is posted elsewhere, including at the Washington Post:
Associated Press:
Police: TSA agent at JFK stole $5K from passenger, latest in series of TSA theft allegations
February 2, 2012
(Posted at Washington Post dot com)
The full AP article is great!
The AP tells us how long the arrested Transportation Security Officer had been employed by TSA (4.5 years), then includes the obligatory TSA Spokesperson "very high standards" quote, then contrasts those "high standards" against TSA's actual performance.
Here's a short quote:
The 31-year-old Schmid was arrested on a charge of grand larceny and suspended pending an investigation. Her attorneys name wasnt immediately known.
Schmid, who lived in Brooklyn, had worked for the TSA for 4 years, TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said.
We do hold our officers to very high standards, and we have a zero tolerance policy for theft in the workplace, Farbstein said.
Its the latest in a series of recent theft allegations against TSA employees:The article then describes the criminal acts committed by TSA Officers at DFW, MIA, JFK and NEW, devoting a paragraph to each airport.
Again, the full AP article is great. The AP has a great format for covering TSA: Describe latest arrest, insert obligatory "highest standards" guote from TSA spokesperson, then shred the TSA quote by simply listing recent arrests of TSA officers at other airports.
Associated Press:
Police: TSA agent at JFK stole $5K from passenger, latest in series of TSA theft allegations
February 2, 2012
(Posted at Washington Post dot com)
The full AP article is great!
The AP tells us how long the arrested Transportation Security Officer had been employed by TSA (4.5 years), then includes the obligatory TSA Spokesperson "very high standards" quote, then contrasts those "high standards" against TSA's actual performance.
Here's a short quote:
The 31-year-old Schmid was arrested on a charge of grand larceny and suspended pending an investigation. Her attorneys name wasnt immediately known.
Schmid, who lived in Brooklyn, had worked for the TSA for 4 years, TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said.
We do hold our officers to very high standards, and we have a zero tolerance policy for theft in the workplace, Farbstein said.
Its the latest in a series of recent theft allegations against TSA employees:
Again, the full AP article is great. The AP has a great format for covering TSA: Describe latest arrest, insert obligatory "highest standards" guote from TSA spokesperson, then shred the TSA quote by simply listing recent arrests of TSA officers at other airports.
Mike
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/02...rom-passenger/
Yet another reason to demand that your belongings be visible if you're opting out.
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Before TSA, was there a commensurate amount of such incidents reported with the private screeners or is there now just greater access and dissemination of these incidents these days because of the internet?
Best analogy would be there being just as many pedophiles when I was growing up in the 60's and 70's but seeming as if there are more now because people are able to access sex offender lists by state and other resources. Ignorance was bliss.
Best analogy would be there being just as many pedophiles when I was growing up in the 60's and 70's but seeming as if there are more now because people are able to access sex offender lists by state and other resources. Ignorance was bliss.