On: TSA to Commission Independent Study of X-Ray Body Scanners

[pdonis]

how many items have been stolen by TSA agents from luggage

As far as I know, the amount of theft due to TSA is negligible; virtually all of it is due to airline employees.

[jessaustin → pdonis]

I suggest googling for "tsa theft"; if they're firing hundreds of people a year every year it isn't a negligible problem. But even if more is stolen by airline employees than by TSA agents, that isn't a defense of the TSA. We couldn't fly without the airlines; we flew for decades without the TSA.

[pdonis → jessaustin]

if they're firing hundreds of people a year every year it isn't a negligible problem

From what I can see from a Google search, "hundreds" is the total number of TSA people who have ever been fired for theft, not the number per year.

[jlgreco → pdonis]

Given the the low end of "hundreds" and the time the TSA has been in existence, that is still not negligible.

Particularly if they suck at catching/firing people as much as they do at any other sort of screening.