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The TSA is Racial-Profiling at Newark Airport? Color Us Surprised. Not.

June 15, 2011 at 3:25 PM | by | Comments (0)

Two things to keep in mind as you read this story. The first is our most recent discussion of racial profiling, where we emphasized that "random screening" doesn't actually exist in the real world. TSA screeners always have the option of profiling. Random screening just lets the agents on the ground choose who to pull aside instead of giving them explicit rules, which gives bad apples the opportunity to abuse their authority: "Why did you tag that African-American gentleman / blonde cheerleader / Cowboys fan for extra screening?" "They were fidgeting."

The second thing is that TSA is on the record saying that EWR screeners are some of the best in the country.

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TSA Settles Lawsuit After Allegedly Exposing Woman's Breasts, Laughing About It

January 17, 2011 at 3:37 PM | by | Comments (0)

It turns out that if you pull off a woman's blouse in public, laugh in her face about it, and then leer at her body when she complains, that it might be something over which you can get sued. The TSA just found out as much, hammering out a settlement with Texas woman Lynsie Murley after Corpus Christi International agents humiliated her at a checkpoint. Honestly guys, this is behavior we'd usually expect from Philadelphia agents.

On one hand, this is just another TSA bad apples story, where the wrong combination of douchebags on a shift ends with an abuse of power. But on the other hand, the incident helps crystallize the single, overarching, central debate over American airline security: random screening vs. profiling.

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