The Top 20 Airports for TSA Theft

ABC News (the Blotter) ^ | Oct. 23, 2012 | MEGAN CHUCHMACH

[Renfield]

Your suitcase has been tagged and whisked away for a TSA security check before being loaded onto a plane en route to your final destination. How safe are the belongings inside? The TSA has fired nearly 400 employees for allegedly stealing from travelers, and for the first time, the agency is revealing the airports where those fired employees worked.

Newly released figures provided to ABC News by the TSA in response to a Freedom of Information Act request show that, unsurprisingly, many of the country's busiest airports also rank at the top for TSA employees fired for theft.

Sixteen of the top 20 airports for theft firings are also in the top 20 airports in terms of passengers passing through.....

[Renfield]

1. Miami International Airport (29)

2. JFK International Airport (27)

3. Los Angeles International Airport (24)

4. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (17)

5. Las Vegas-McCarren International Airport (15)

6. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and New York-Laguardia Airport (14 each)

8. Newark Liberty, Philadelphia International, and Seattle-Tacoma International airports (12 each)

11. Orlando International Airport (11)

12. Houston-George Bush Intercontinental Airport and Salt Lake City International Airport (10 each)

14. Washington Dulles International Airport (9)

15. Detroit Metro Airport and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (7)

17. Boston-Logan International, Denver International and San Diego International airports (6)

20. Chicago O’Hare International Airport (5)

[Rome2000]

Over 400 employees fired for theft (and those are just the ones they caught)

Maybe they should lose their Contract, oh that's right, they are Federal Workers

Thanks W, helluv a job.

[PGR88]

So if Al Qaeda was willing to spend, say $250,000 each to a few TSA agents, I just wonder how much contraband they could get aboard an airplane?

I feel so much safer already.

[Sam Cree]

TSA at Las Vegas McCurran confiscated my Gerber multitool that had a small pocketknife blade that I’d mistakenly left in my carry on luggage. They mailed it to me at home about 5 weeks later to my great surprise.

[South40]

People want to take what someone else worked hard to get. That’s Obama’s class warfare.

[Focault's Pendulum]

I didn’t even have to look, but I knew Newark would be there.

[TChris]

So if Al Qaeda was willing to spend, say $250,000 each to a few TSA agents, I just wonder how much contraband they could get aboard an airplane?

This is definitely an area where W leaned left. TSA is a poster child for the "Symbolism Over Substance" charge we have always leveled at liberals.

Nobody in Washington cares if the TSA is effective or not. It was important for the feds to "do something."

As the only hammer in the government's toolbox, "do something" translates to: Expand government power and spend more taxpayer money.

Nowhere on the agenda does "solve the problem" or "accomplish something constructive" appear.

[TChris]

So if Al Qaeda was willing to spend, say $250,000 each to a few TSA agents, I just wonder how much contraband they could get aboard an airplane?

This is definitely an area where W leaned left. TSA is a poster child for the "Symbolism Over Substance" charge we have always leveled at liberals.

Nobody in Washington cares if the TSA is effective or not. It was important for the feds to "do something."

As the only hammer in the government's toolbox, "do something" translates to: Expand government power and spend more taxpayer money.

Nowhere on the agenda does "solve the problem" or "accomplish something constructive" appear.

[Aria]

Oh great. I fly into Philadelphia on Friday and then later I fly from Orlando to Ft Meyers.

Thanks for posting this.

[muir_redwoods]

I never check bags when I fly and I keep my eyes on the little trays of my stuff that go through the scanner. I can still be robbed but I do what I can to make it difficult

[BlueStateRightist]

“I didn’t even have to look, but I knew Newark would be there.”

lol. I thought the exact same thought.

[BCW]

Well I don’t know if the TSA agents stole my undies that were in a zip locked bag - or the muzzies in Jordan...hard to tell the difference...

[doorgunner69]

I may be mistaken (In the case of LAX I am not) but I suspect virtually all of those airports you pretty much have to be one of Holder’s people to get a job with TSA.

[fatnotlazy]

I used to love to fly, but between the groping, the stealing and having to put my cane through the scanner along with shoes, bag, coat, toiletries and everything else, flying sucks.

Sometime ago, there was a guy on tv — a former TSA big wig or something. He said that the TSA doesn’t provide any real security. Rather, it was created to make us FEEL safe. No logic, no practicality. It’s all about FEELINGS.

Well, I for one don’t feel safe. All I feel is aggravated.

[Galtoid]

Might I observe that these are all Democrat cities. No surprise at all.

[Galtoid]

Might I observe that these are all Democrat cities. No surprise at all.

[Galtoid]

Might I observe that these are all Democrat cities. No surprise at all.

[missnry]

I just left out of St. Louis and as you check your bag you pass it to a TSA baggage handler for the xray machine. It was a 60 lb bag because it had books in it. The only place to put a bag was on top of several other bags on a moving cart. I told the TSA guy that it was a “heavy” bag ... the scum bag was like ordering me to put the bag on top of the cart. I did not oblige his stupidity to throw my back out to accommodate his laziness.

[Zakeet]

Chicago O’Hare International Airport only comes in at 20th ... with all the traffic through that place ... and all the corruption they have in windy city?

Tells me the Chicago TSA has to be close to dead last in terms of honest inspectors inspecting the inspectors!