Quoting coairman (Reply 99): - The FAA imposes a federal carry on bag size restriction that applies to ALL airlines. |
That is not the FAA's place to impose.
Quoting coairman (Reply 99): -The TSA will enforce the FAA carry on bag size restriction at the check point by utilizing a bag size template at the front of the X-ray machine that restricts bags out of compliance. |
The TSA isn't there to enforce airline sizing. In fact, there was a lawsuit over putting sizers on airport security belts.
Quoting tlecam (Reply 87): Where did you get a police search out of my post? |
Because you specifically said you wanted POLICE to do the search. If that ever happened, I would file suit and so would a lot of other people.
Quoting AAIL86 (Reply 86): True enough. But even if they had, the staff, equipment, training, and procedures in place back then would not have prevented it had they been. |
That makes no grammatical sense.
Quoting AAIL86 (Reply 86): We are not using scientific analysis here, just gut guesstimations. None of statistics we've been throwing around here are usful enough to draw a conclusion either way. |
The "red team" statistics are extremely stark.
Quoting AAIL86 (Reply 86): The quality level of TSA staff today is still light years ahead of who the airlines employed before 9/11. |
No, they are the same people.
Quoting AAIL86 (Reply 86): Like I said, I travel 16-18 times per year, I get it. |
I fly over 250,000 miles a year. I get it. The TSA is not at all better than what we had before. The rules are just different. Not to mention the heightened awareness of passengers and willingness to engage physically.
Quoting Cubsrule (Reply 85): I'll readily agree that there are problems with the approach, but there's no legal reason that police cannot perform administrative searches without a warrant in one role and more invasive searches with a warrant (or other legitimate reason) in another. |
Except that their duties require them to look for contraband other than WEI. Not to mention giving them discretion to search in the way the TSA has would lead them to doing drug and other contraband searches that they aren't supposed to be performing.
Quoting copter808 (Reply 84): Why should search legality be different just because they are sworn officers? TSA folks are government employees acting on behalf of the Government. Both searches should be the same. |
The difference is that police are required to look for contraband other than WEI. The TSA is legally required to NOT look for such things, though they can report it if they see it. The other difference is giving screeners powers of arrest is a very dangerous, slippery slope.
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