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More than 400 TSA officers have quit since shutdown began

More than 400 TSA officers have quit since shutdown began - Lemmy.World

TSA employees have been working without pay during a partial shutdown of DHS over demands to reform immigration enforcement. More than 400 Transportation Security Administration workers have quit since a partial government shutdown that began on Feb. 14 left them working without pay, the Department of Homeland Security said. Funding was shut off to DHS over demands by Democrats for reforms at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection following alleged abuses and the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis earlier this year. There has also been a national callout rate of 10% at TSA on more than half the days of the last week, Lauren Bis, acting assistant secretary for public affairs at DHS, said Saturday in response to questions.

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Wataba 1d ago

Gladly let the door kick them on the way out. Heard nothing but awful power tripping stories about them.

ICE is godawful and obviously worse. Both being gone would be great of course.

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BarneyPiccolo 1d ago

You hear the occasional story, but MILLIONS of people interact with TSA every day, and it goes perfectly smoothly. There is nothing like mind-numbing repetition to create a smooth flow. And when you do hear of a problem, it’s almost always started by the passenger.

TSA workers are just hard-working Americans, doing a job that has to be done. Keep your animosity aimed at those at the top who really deserve it.

And ICE Apes. They really do suck.

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NocturnalMorning 1d ago

Does it really have to be done though? The obnoxious security screenings don’t make anybody safer.

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BarneyPiccolo 1d ago

Airline hijackings dropped drastically after 9/11 due to enhanced security, moving from a relatively common occurrence to a rare event. While hundreds occurred globally between 1968 and 1972, and over 130 happened in the U.S. in one four-year period, there have been no successful hijackings in the U.S. since 9/11.

ourworldindata.org/…/airline-hijackings-once-rela…

Yes, it really has to be done. We live in a world of mass shootings nearly every day. The only reason it hasn’t happened in a plane is because of the post-9/11 security.

People don’t understand that TSA’s biggest impact isn’t in stopping weapons from coming onto planes in the airport. All of that is just theater, and we are unwilling players, like it or not. The impact is at home, when a lunatic who want to kill a lot of people decides to not do it on an airplane because he’ll probably never get through security, so he chooses a path of lesser resistance. Not great for that victim, but at least airport security eliminated against THEM.

Is it working? Who knows what’s on the minds of suicidal terrorists, but after a long period of many hijackings, culminating in the worst in history on 9/11, there have been no major hijacks in America since TSA and enhanced security were implemented in American airports.

Hard to argue with results like that.

Airline hijackings, once relatively common, are rare today

Airline hijackings are often considered a very visible and prominent form of modern terrorism, with the 9/11 attacks in the United States in 2001 being a well-known tragic example.

Our World in Data

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ScoffingLizard 21h ago

Those statistics are not realistic. There were not 130 hijackings in four years. Maybe someone stealing a plane, but nothing like 911.

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BarneyPiccolo

Did you get dropped on your head? When there’s a crazy guy waving a gun, and demanding to go to Cuba (that was really popular for a while, for some reason), NOBODY on the plane is thinking that this is just a guy stealing a plane, nothing to worry about. They are frightened for their very lives, not thinking that this isn’t a “real” hijacking. That’s about the most idiotic take I can imagine.

Yeah, and they were nothing like 9/11, which was the very first time a plane had been used as a weapon of mass destruction before, and they used 4 of them simultaneously. It was really, really serious.

But that doesn’t mean previous hijackings weren’t serious. People died in hijackings and rescues around the world all the time. It doesn’t have to be as big as 9/11, to still be serious.

We dropped 2 atomic bombs at the end of WW2. They were really big, bigger than anything that came before. Does that mean the fire bombing of Tokyo wasn’t serious? The fire-bombing of Dresden into rubble wasn’t serious? How about all the other bombings we did in WW2? Were those not serious, just because something much bigger was in the future? I doubt the victims of the bombings would agree.

And you know what, Einstein? YOU don’t get to determine which statistics are realistic or not. Get another couple of years of education, until you can spell Google, then look up the Wikipedia entry on Hijackings.