Um … what do you think would happen to you if you tried to sneak a gun past security at the TSA checkpoint in Denver? Well, apparently, if you’ve got a yen to do so, you just need to be sure you hire on with the TSA before you do it.
A Transportation Security Administration worker who brought a gun through an X-ray machine at Denver International Airport is back on the job. A FOX 31 investigation reveals that Alvin Crabtree got to keep his job as a screener at DIA, despite the incident.
Airport and Denver Police documents show the incident happened on the morning of November 23, 2007. Another screener saw an “unloaded firearm” in Crabtree’s bag as he reported for his shift at the “A-Bridge” checkpoint.
Airport documents show that the security office suspended Crabtree’s badge for 30 days as a result of the incident, but a TSA spokeswoman cited privacy rules when asked if Crabtree received any formal punishment.
You mean “formal punishment” as in being thrown in jail? Losing his job? Something like that? Evidently not.
I mean, not that being suspended from your job for a month is trivial, but, heck if you or I tried doing that, as Cory Doctorow puts it, it would “land any of the rest of us in Gitmo for a decade’s worth of stress-positioning.”
To which I would also add that the TSA seems to be a lot more particular about their employees’ privacy than about ours.
(via Doyce)
That must have been one of the perks of the job: health benefits, retirement benefits, and benefit of the doubt.
While the rest of us, of course, get the “Anyone carrying clippers will be treated as a terrorist” treatment.
Charming.
Kinda “Them” vs “Us” …
Isn’t that the way that security services — from police to secret police — alway tend to turn out? That’s kind of human nature, tribalism at it’s less savory. Something we should always be trying to remember when setting up folks in authority.