In other news, water is wet.
Really? Is this common?
Recently there was a ring of United workers busted stealing pot from travelers bags in SF.
https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/sfo-armed-robbery-un...
TSA officers accused of stealing from passengers
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#13This is more common than reported.
I’ve lost a semi expensive present, and have heard anecdotal stories of people losing handbags, jewelry, higher end clothing/shoes.
It seems to be more prevalent in the US/TSA than other first world countries.
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#15Do we still need the TSA? I mean, we beat terrorism right?
We never did
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really? Is this common?
The unsurprising part to me is not that it's "common", but with over 50k TSA agents, I'd be shocked if some small percentage of them weren't thieves. If only one in a thousand is a thief, that's still 50 thieves.
Sure, but that's not a "water is wet" thing. It's not like only 1 in 1000 water molecules are wet.
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#17Do we still need the TSA? I mean, we beat terrorism right?
At the time the TSA was hired the majority of workers had previously been airport security which is was low-skill/low-pay job. When Bush Jr established the TSA, those same people were federalized. Meaning Federal pay, benefits, retirement, etc for the same low skill level.
They haven't improved much since then. The organization has essentially made Security Theater an event with audience participation. Yet they routinely miss threats -- like they have a 95% FAILURE rate at points.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/reassessing_a...
Incidentally, that post is fairly well known amongst the security minded as you see here.
https://reason.com/2021/11/19/after-20-years-of-failure-kill...
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
The unsurprising part to me is not that it's "common", but with over 50k TSA agents, I'd be shocked if some small percentage of them weren't thieves. If only one in a thousand is a thief, that's still 50 thieves.
Sure, but that's not a "water is wet" thing. It's not like only 1 in 1000 water molecules are wet.
If you have 1 bad officer but 999 who go along with it, you have 1000 bad officers.
And remember, this is just one case.
"Instead of making headlines with reform, though, the TSA has become better-known for stealing money from travelers. In September, news reports called out the case of TSA working with other agencies to seize $27,600 from a Texas man, apparently because he was traveling to Oregon where marijuana is legal in conflict with federal law; he was never charged with a crime. Last year, the Institute for Justice reported that TSA and its sister agencies at Homeland Security "seized over $2 billion in currency at airports" between 2000 and 2016."
https://reason.com/2021/11/19/after-20-years-of-failure-kill...
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#19Do we still need the TSA? I mean, we beat terrorism right?
It’s a jobs program, always has been.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, but that's not a "water is wet" thing. It's not like only 1 in 1000 water molecules are wet.
If you have 1 bad officer but 999 who go along with it, you have 1000 bad officers. And remember, this is just one case. "Instead of making headlines with reform, though, the TSA has become better-known for stealing money from travelers. In September, news reports called out the case of TSA working with other agencies to seize $27,600 from a Texas man, apparently because he was traveling to Oregon where marijuana is…
I don't get why every comment here is answering a different question than the one being asked. The question is "is it common for TSA agents to covertly steal from carry-on luggage", not "is the TSA bad" or "do TSA follow due process" or "is it risky to carry cash in checked luggage when traveling" or "is law enforcement stealing from people" or what have you.