I should have kept the reference, it was in the IHT but I threw it away after I read it. Silly me.
The article was bemoaning the loss of thousands of border patrol officers to the TSA, and the difficulty they were having in replacing them, obviously with untrained personnel. I had read similar stories about other law enforcement agencies including local police and sheriffs as well as the FBI and Secret Service having the same problem.
Maybe it was just an initial repsonse to the problem and maybe there is a plan in place to fix it. But maybe the writers were correct, and if so, I still maintain that the persons giving up law enforcement jobs to go work for the TSA are wrong, if it results in degradation of crime control in general.
The buildup of "Airport Security" is a crock, since the level of security was not as bad as we are being told it was, neither is the improvement as good as we are being told it is. The best that can be said about it is that it is shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
A recent report shows that thousands of knives, guns and boxcutters are still being carried aboard domestic flights in the US, with absolutely no danger to travelers, since they are being carried by honest (stupid, yes) people who never intend to use them for criminal acts. Yet we are increasing the number of screeners, armed law enforcement officers and so on, to take the battle to these honest citizens and travelers, driving them away from flying and destroying the airlines in the process, while drug dealers, killers, illegal border crossers, kidnappers and so on are finding fewer obstacles to their nefarious deeds.
The asylum is being run by the inmates.
Last edited by boofhead; 18th October 2002 at 12:30.