Posted on 07/20/2016 3:07:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Transportation Security Administration's woes continue.
Despite the Transportation Security Administration's ten-point action plan to reduce long lines at airports across the country, lengthy queues remain. Now, the TSA's summer may be getting even worse: According to a recent report from the House Homeland Security Commission entitled "Misconduct at TSA Threatens the Security of the Flying Public", nearly half of the TSA’s 60,000 employees have been cited for misconduct in recent years.
The bad news doesn't stop there. Citations have increased 28.5 percent from 2013 to 2015, and in 2015, the average U.S. airport received 58 complaints each year—more than one a week. (Unsurprisingly, some of the nation's largest and busiest airports—Los Angeles International Airport, Newark International Airport, and Boston Logan International Airport—saw the highest rates of misconduct.) The complaints can come from frustrated passengers, sure, but also from fellow TSA employees and other government workers.
Perhaps even worse? The outcomes of these misconduct allegations. Findings from the six-month-long investigation show that from fiscal year 2013 to 2015, the number of investigations opened and closed decreased by 15 percent and 28 percent, respectively. TSA increased the use of non-disciplinary actions by almost 80 percent, while it decreased the use of disciplinary actions by 14 percent. Put simply, this means the TSA has offered fewer (and lesser) punishments, and has instead sought to treat the misconduct with "more counseling and letters that explain why certain behaviors were not acceptable."(continued)
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Love the tag! If my memory serves correctly it’s “Kill Them All” is it not?
This is the flip side of the psychological training program that is the TSA. Half (!) of the organization getting formal citations is likely more a way to put psychological stress on the screeners than anything else. Makes ‘em more compliant down the road.
Most of us, myself included, focus on the on how the TSA alters the government / citizen relationship from the citizen’s point of view. Sure, the TSA enforces compliance and creates an acceptance of petty harassment, thus altering the travelling public, myself included. Our national character has been not-so-subtly changed by the TSA. If you doubt it, try to imagine the response in 1970 to the “choice” of government groping or of being part of the largest radiation exposure program in human history. Americans were different then; we’ve been changed.
Thing is, that’s only half the process.
The TSA screeners themselves are also being altered by this process. They too are being harassed and annoyed. The ones who stay are thus being molded to be anxious martinets, ready to harass others even more.
The results are predictable, if only because this sort of thing has been done so many times before. Subjecting people to routine petty harassment changes both the “harassers” and the “harassees.” The Stanford Prison Experiment caused psychological changes among both “prisoners” and “guards” in less than a week. Real prisons cause psychological changes among both prisoners and guards. Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago is full of examples of this process from Stalinist Russia. The Sturmabteilung harassment of people going about their day to day lives in Germany also apparently set the psychological stage for acceptance of the the pathological control demanded by the Third Reich. The “cultural revolution” in China featured the same sort of pointless harassment and abuse, and apparently changed the Chinese people in the process.
The TSA is part of a long tradition of governments using well documented psychological pressures to alter the population (us) and also their own personnel. Frequent “citations” and “counseling” are just low-grade “struggle sessions,” and they work. All of this just provides more reason that the TSA must end.
Tsa are glorified baggage handlers. Because most were that before fedgov made them “officers”. They are not officers. They were hourly unskilled workers and they still are.
And a lot were underqualified for the job before.
Yup, all awful crap I spoke out about while occurring. Adding layers did jack sh1t and police-stated the country even more.
Bush was happy to do this. He had his guys all set up to run the things and was more than happy to make the police state bigger and broader.
Government work is so often make work for the barely employable.
We work, they eat.
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