I know they fail tests. However, they are really functioning as a deterrent to terrorists. Terrorists shift to non guarded targets like schools, gay nightclubs, shopping markets etc.
I dont like airport security any more than the next person but I prefer the deterrent to the other option
I prefer methods that work rather than methods that cause tremendous inconvenience, long lines and soak up $.
The Israeli’s have an excellent screening record based on profiling, dogs and watching behavior but we couldn’t model on them, because we can’t profile. Political correctness trumps good sense and results. Just like the great good of unlimited immigration trumps the people who get raped or murdered in Germany and Sweden.
I am tired of having a pig’s ear sold to me as the finest silk. My home airport is Newark and the TSA staff there are indescribable. It is like the asylum where the patients are in charge.
We need airport security by professionals who are doing their job by methods that work as is the case in other Nations across the globe. Settling for what we have in place now, because you think it keeps you safe is fooling yourself and delaying the conversation and changes that would allow travelers to actually be safer.