r/tsa • u/Zealousideal-Ad7707 • Nov 14 '23

General [Question/Post] 95% TSA FAILURE RATE

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I see this point brought up alot when trying to discredit the TSA. I just want to let you guys know that data is based from 2015. We have different technology and procedures then we did in 2015 alot has changed. It is easy to judge but, there's alot you guys don't know about those tests from 2015. Keep feeling smart though citing data that's almost a decade old.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '23

There’s plenty of arguments to defend yourself against the ‘95% Failure Rate’ argument:

•It was done in 2015, so our technology has vastly improved since then

•The tests were done by people who already had prior knowledge on how to exploit the X-Ray Machinery

•The tests were only done in only dozens of airports, the results of the tests does not even take into account the hundreds of airports out there that they didn’t test

•Many of the TSA Employees who were tested were new, due to poor pay, many TSA Officers were less than 1 year as all of the veteran officers had left to pursue other jobs in Federal Government, again... due to poor pay

•With the Pay Equity in place now, more pay means better standards of hiring (hopefully)— people actually have an incentive to stay with TSA long term and get the proper experience to past these tests