New airport agents check for danger in fliers' facial expressions

McClatchy Newspapers ^ | August 14, 2007 | Kaitlin Dirrig

[af_vet_rr]

Yes. It’s a good thing. Of course. We need to be safe. They won’t abuse the authority. And we can trust them.

Oh, that's right, I keep forgetting, the TSA hires only competent people. My criticism of them, that some would be doing good to handle the responsibility of the cash register at a McDonald's is completely unfounded.

[U S Army EOD]

If the expression is total disgust, then no one will be allowed to fly.

[toldyou]

“Yeah, but who’s watching the watchers?”

You are so right....like the guy who made my 90 year old mom remove her shoes to check them. I asked what country he was from...”Pakistan.”

Also, after 9/11, we airline employees had to get new ID’s because they were performing “more thorough” background checks. When filling out the information papers, you were asked to check one: Are you:
Caucasian
African-American
Hispanic
There was no other choice...no “Other” either. I’m assuming Caucasian means every other race now so as not to discriminate????

I took one of the papers when no one was watching, and I have it here somewhere in my clutter. The info asked made me feel they were just going through the motions.

[toldyou]

“They don’t seem to good policing thier own.”
This is ONE incident, and I never even heard of the airline....some small one associated with Delta.

I worked for United since 1966. We had 25,000 flight attendants when I retired in 2003, and you wouldn’t have seen an incident like this occuring.

Typical media showing this over and over again as if it’s commonplace with flight attendants. Sheesh!

[thinking]

All this crap, is get around profiling....now, all that has to be said is, I didn't like the way she/he looked....

[fishhound]

Behavior Detection Officers?

What is next?
...Behavior “Modification” Officers?

[Dan Evans]

What is next? ...Behavior “Modification” Officers?

We already have those. It's called "sensitivity training."

[fishhound]

Great Point.

[null and void]

I'm not sure that some the people I've dealt with in Airport Security could find their own ass with both hands and map in broad daylight.

'sok, they only need to find your ass...

[null and void]

Also, after 9/11, we airline employees had to get new ID’s because they were performing “more thorough” background checks. When filling out the information papers, you were asked to check one: Are you:
Caucasian
African-American
Hispanic
There was no other choice...no “Other” either. I’m assuming Caucasian means every other race now so as not to discriminate????

Probably using the same rules the FBI uses for crime stats. Carlos Hernadez is listed as Hispanic if he is the victim, and listed as Caucasian if he is the criminal.

[toldyou]

LOL!

[null and void]

Yeah. If only it wasn’t true.

[toldyou]

Perhaps it was around the year 2000 when our flight arrived at our destination at a layover city. We (flight crew) left the Boeing 737 plane and went to the hotel knowing the plane would be ours in the morning. I remember, as we were leaving, the foreign cleaners (they did not speak English) arriving.

Back on the plane in the morning, the pilots noticed that several settings in the cockpit were not the same as when they left the night before. Concerned, they had the mechanics check it out. Within 30 minutes we ready for boarding and off we went.