TSA: America's Gropingest Arrested IN DFW Parking Pass Sting
TSA thugs at DFW have been arrested in a police sting involving stolen parking passes, posts NBCDFW. Scott Gordon writes:
Sources familiar with the probe said it started several months ago with an undercover investigation by the airport's Department of Public Safety.Investigators found an American Airlines worker had stolen 100 parking passes for employee parking lots and recruited TSA officers to sell the passes to co-workers for $100 apiece, the sources said.
One person who was aware of the investigation said as many as 20 TSA officers are suspected of selling or buying the passes. Another person said the number was closer to 40.
Bill Fisher posts in the comments:
There were four TSA screeners arrested for crimes in the last six weeks including three arrested for sex crimes. The arrests in July and August included TSA Manager Shane Hinkle charged with sexual abuse of co-worker, TSA screener, Larry Kobielnik, for sexual assault and attempted rape in Florida, Massachusetts screener Miguel Quinones for having child pornography and screener Tracy Leanne Owens for stealing cash from a bag in Honolulu.There have been 117 TSA workers arrested in the last 30 months including 20 arrested for sex crimes including 16 involving children, over 32 for theft, 12 for smuggling contraband through security and one for murder. Having criminals staffing checkpoints doesn't keep anyone safe.
This agency is a national disgrace and is endangers more people than it protects
If the TSA can't hire those who won't use their jobs for criminal enterprise, we're trusting their repurposed hamburger clerks to provide (rights-violating) "security" why?
Thanks, Bob!
Because - it's just as you say. They're repurposed hamburger clerks, who are paid as much. If you want people to show strength against illegal acts, we should pay them a living wage so they don't feel compelled to break the law (not that this is any excuse). But you do get what you pay for...
Lee at September 6, 2013 1:53 PM
According to Glassdoor, the average hourly wage for a TSA screener or officer is a little over $14.50 per hour. Looking at the table on the linked page, these wages seem to be on the entry level end of the scale. Couldn't see the whole page without signing in via Facebook or something, though. In any case, screener pay is a little higher than your average burger clerk's, but not much.
Miss Alkon, go a little easier on the hamburger clerks, maybe? Unskilled or not, their jobs are kind of important. You give them money, and they give you bags of food. Isn't that more noble than the TSA?
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at September 6, 2013 2:11 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/09/06/tsa_americas_gr.html#comment-3895018">comment from Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com)I love hamburger clerks -- I just want them in charge of hamburgers.
And Lee, you EARN your wage -- we don't give it to you because you're a criminal and we need to keep you from being who you really are. Just appalling thinking!
Should writers all be robbing people? Writing isn't paying what it used to. In fact, many people working at McDonald's probably make more than some writers do for long, reported pieces for respected online sites!
Amy Alkon
at September 6, 2013 2:37 PM
" If you want people to show strength against illegal acts, we should pay them a living wage so they don't feel compelled to break the law (not that this is any excuse)."
Pay them a living wage? To do what, now?
You actually want these people to be paid MORE?
And you think that a low wage is what makes them feel "compelled" to break the law?
I have news for you: it's not poverty, or low wages, that makes people criminals. It's low expectations, or the expectation that people can never do anything for themselves. If you GIVE people the necessities of life, what the hell do you expect in return? I know what you get: disdain for the idea that you work for what you have.
Raise the bar. Don't lower it. Don't make excuses for these people. I'm very sure they have no respect for you.
Radwaste at September 6, 2013 9:06 PM
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