End the TSA: Privatize airport security

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Here is a problem for the new Trump appointed for the National Security Advisory Council: in depth, the detection work of the Transportation Security Administration.

The Secretary of National Security Kristi Recent name of the final collective bargaining with the union that represents the TSA agents after DHS discovered that the most employees of TSA are busy doing “full -time trade union work” that undertakes, while giants in any donor of any donor in any case. dismissed.

But as any besieged traveler can compete, TSA’s problems go far beyond that: Virtual and the entire safety/detection apparatus is a meaningless circus.

Make the teams of low wages workers select millions of air passengers a day brings painful and sore lines, “contradictory and arbitrary” rules “are we taking off shoes today? The laptops of the bags!

Remove your belt, empty your water bottles, throw your aerosols, set aside to get a random safety theater, and everything is for Nothing.

Yes, TSA still catches thousands of weapons every year, some only in hand, but obviously loses even further.

In the undercover tests of 2017, the DHS sent timbres through airport security lines with fake weapons: TSA agents failed to catch 80% of falsifications, a improvement In two years before, when 95% of the weapons passed.

It has been so in the evidence since the foundation of the agencies.

How is this more than a work program?

Maybe nothing reveals the scam more than for $ 78, you can buy its output of the sausage from the experience for precheck, or cough at $ 179 a year and jump in front of the line with a private company like Clear.

All others sweat to lose their flight.

Senator Mike Lee (R-UTAH) has been asking for Congress to abolish the TSA to years; Your colleagues should listen.

At least, privatize detection work: that is the case in 20 American airports, including San Francisco and Orlando.

Configure to provide a sense O Security in the middle of panic after September 11, TSA is still breaking along with little rhyme and less reasons because this is how government agencies.

The United States needs something less introductive and less onerous: more efficient, competent and pleasant.

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