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While I agree that most TSA workers are just regular americans working a job... some of the replies to this are true. The failure rate is high. The TSA is not very effective at finding things. They surely do have some people power tripping because every organization that size does.
And I would not call TSA operations... smooth most days.
That said, most of the problems are due to management. Dumb things like inconsistent policies between airports, terrible line management, unclear instructions that seem to change back and forth even at the same airport. The general assumption that the passenger should already have all of thier rules and such memorized before they show up.
These are fixable things, but they won't be fixed. They don't hire people who think about improvements for management. That would cost too much.
And speaking of pay, are giving access to people's personal belongings to people they don't pay very well. Then they wonder why things go missing sometimes.
So, no, it isn't necessary at the level it is done. Some security sure. But it's ineffective overkill. That said, it isn't the individuals. So I don't don't wish them any ill will.
Still missing the point that catching threats at the airport is important, but not the biggest goal. The bigger goal is for the enormous baggage inspection bottleneck to intimidate anyone who is thinking about attacking a plane into not doing that.
And the simple fact that there have been no major hijackings since 9/11, proves that this strategy has worked. Now we have people saying that since we have no hijackings anymore, we should get rid of the very mechanism that makes that possible.
If you closed the baggage inspection lanes today, we would have a passenger airliner go down within a week.
So you are saying security theater is the point. I just don't buy that. The failure rate is very high. People who would plan an attack know that. I mean one test was as bad as 95% failed. If they tried to do 9 11 again. Maybe, just maybe, one person in one group might get stopped by the tsa.
And by your logic, the previous sytem was equally good. Before 911, the last commercial us airline hijacking was in 83. So 18 years. After 911, 2021. So 20 years.