Transportation of Security Administration

Racially Biased

Transportation Security Administration

• The TSA uses a screening process called SPOT in which the screeners and extra security members are tasked with watching traveler’s body language and possibly aggressive behaviors.
• This program runs on a point system and if a person does a six actions considered suspicious, they will be pulled from the line to be checked and questioned.
• Many former TSA employees when interviewed approximated that 80% of all people pulled out of the lines for SPOT check were minorities.
• . TSA assistant federal security director at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International airport Andrew Rhoades was asked to profile Somali-Americans.

Works Cited

Conclusion

Dickerson, Kelly. “Yes, the TSA is probably profiling you and it's scientifically bogus.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 6 May 2015, www.businessinsider.com/tsa-spot-program-is-scientifically-bogus-2015-5.

Marsh, Rene. “TSA official says he was instructed to racially profile Somali-Americans.” CNN, Cable News Network, 27 Apr. 2016, www.cnn.com/2016/04/27/politics/transportation-security-administration-racial-profiling/index.html.

Trott, Bill, and Eric Walsh; “Homeland security chief reassigns top TSA official.” Reuters, Thomson Reuters, 2 June 2015, www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-tsa/homeland-security-chief-reassigns-top-tsa-official-idUSKBN0OI05D20150602.

“The TSA has never kept you safe: here's why.” Fortune, fortune.com/2015/06/02/the-tea-airport-security-problems/.

“TSA's 2017 Budget – A Commitment to Security (Part I).” Transportation Security Administration, 14 Feb. 2017, www.tsa.gov/news/testimony/2016/03/01/hearing-fy17-budget-request-transportation-security-administration.

• The TSA is a microcosm of the government as a whole as it is ineffective, costly, and racially biased.
• It needs to be overhauled or removed from practice.

Costly

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Period 2

Dual Credit

Ineffective

• The TSA takes up 7.6 billion dollars within the Government budget.
• This 7.6 billion dollars is being wasted on a ineffective program and these resources could be filtered to other government agencies.
• The department of education could fund entirely new schools and the department of federal highway administration could pay for new roads and highways to relieve traffic congestion

• The TSA has been perennially ineffective at actually screening dangerous items.
• A recent test of a dozen different airports showed that 95% of potentially dangerous devices or weapons made it through security.
• Along with the TSA’s creation, the cockpit doors were made more durable so no potential terrorist could break into and harm the captain, and positive baggage matching was also implemented.

TSA

• The TSA is a government agency created after the world trade center and pentagon attacks on 9/11
• This administration is a racist facade which adds no value to the security process within airports and is considered by many to be a waste of resources, time.