Subject: Re: Airport Chaos
Don’t know. Not paying them their salary isn’t likely to make them better at it.

True. But I question the magnitude of their value. I remember a time when they almost didn't exist. I suspect I'm older than you, so you may not remember.

I hate to sound trite, but we should approach security smarter, not harder (i.e. more). For example, the hardening of cockpit doors.

It is a major pita at airports, but given our current dysfunctional agency (ICE), we don't dare give them funding. Even if that affects other agencies. They view themselves as above the law and the Constitution (their new agents are being told that explicitly).