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Thats SSI :p

Drug smugglers at the airport are amateurs not professionals. Pros know that there is a good possibility that the luggage will be screened or that their person will be screened. Pros use private planes or hire someone to smuggle the dope past security, like TSA agents or line crews.

If the BDO program was a grand as is pretended we would not hear stories of TSOs stealing for OVER a year or line crews smuggling dope for as long.

If the TSA was serious about the BDO program, they'd be hiring people with doctorates in psychology who'd been through the criminal profiling division of the FBI at Quantico. As it is, they're throwing people out there who have less psych and profiling training as a college freshman who just took Psych 101.

As it stands, given the above advocacy for the fact that the BDO program has caught so many drug traffickers, it's more a way for the TSA to continue their mission creep than anything.

Answered in another post.

I am enjoying the back and forth but I need to get some zzzzzzz.

Good night.

YES you are suppose to give them a free pass, because IT'S NOT YOUR JOB to find drug couriers, illegal immigrants or other problem people who pose no threat to aviation security. YOU ARE NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT - remember that.

Your job is ONLY to ensure that people and luggage contents entering the sterile area of an airport, and thus flying on a COMMERCIAL airliner operating as a public carrier do not represent a threat to the safe operation of said airliner. Period. Case Closed. I fail to understand why so many TSA employees don't understand this.

There may be a federal law which requires federal employees to report illegal activity. Fine. However, the only application of that law should be the definitive discovery of illegal activity as part of a direct consensual search of their person or bags - not going on a behavioral analysis mission to determine if the person should be further searched to find their illegal activity unless, and ONLY unless, there is concern DIRECTLY related to aviation security.

Drug dealers, illegal immigrants, etc., are not threats to aviation security.

How about your organization and coworkers get your core mission test results up above a 20% pass before self-anointing yourselves the "FBI of the Airport" and getting involved in things which are not of your damn business.

Interesting, but according to TSA Dude, our highly trained expert BDO; There is no way to deduce intent without futher investigating why. Some people are just plain scared of flying, but those behaviors exhibited could be the same as the felons. In other words junk science, here we have a highly trained BDO who can't tell the difference between a nervous passenger and a real threat to airline safety.


My money is on the Read Team, given the high failure rate of checkpoints. Lets remember when Red Team tests occur they have to walk through the airport that are staffed with BDOs. I have no doubt there are statistics of Red Team tests of BDO's.

The sole function of TSA is to make aviation safer. Wanted felons and drug mules don't pose a threat to aviation.

You are not LEOs. Your job is not to apprehend criminals, but to prevent threats to aviation.

Already, you have made flying so unpleasant that many people avoid it. You continually trespass on constitutional rights, and harass millions of people every year without making any significant contribution to aviation safety.

Leave catching crooks to the professionals, i.e. trained law enforcement officers. Focus on your mission statement and, instead of wasting money on such unrelated endeavors as catching crooks (for which you are completely unqualified) and, instead, do things like screening all air cargo and U.S. mail placed aboard commercial aircraft -- that alone would increase airline safety far more than placing 10,000 BDOs in the terminal.

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How's that anti-TSA legislative thing working out?

I wasnt a believer in unions until I was required to observe for people with 100 degree temperatures:eek: It gets more absurd from both sides everyday

There are plenty of anti-TSA movements and inertia afoot...currently battling a liberal Congress who is no fan of the TSA, but is having difficulty letting go of a work-fare program.

You wanted a clear, concise answer to your question, you got one. Why not tell us how and why you personally feel it's both appropriate and necessary to deviate from your assigned mission in order to catch people who have absolutely nothing to do with your agency's scope of authority?

If BDO's are so dang good then why do they not spot their fellow co-workers who are dealing drugs or stealing from travelers baggage?

They work next to these people, attend the same briefs and such.

So out of the 10's of millions of people who travel in a years time how many terrorist has any TSA worker identified?

Point to one successful prosecution.