9/11 Safety Protocol
Safety Protocol or Abuse of Power?
The target audience for this subject is Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees. This includes agents and the corporate branch. Readers are expected to have a general understanding of how air passengers feel while being searched and why some protocols should change. This report is also intended to educate employees on the seriousness of sexual harassment and give different ideas as to how to search passengers.
Fire. Destruction. Horror. These are a few of the understated words that describe the tragedy of 9/11. On September 11th, 2001, terrorists hijacked planes, then crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, causing thousands of innocent lives to come to an unexpected end. “Haunting …show more content…
Many people, the majority of them of the female sex, accused some agents of groping, sexual harassment, or unnecessary actions in general. Amy Strand from Maui was being searched in Kauai's Lihue Airport when an agent found an electric breast pump and empty milk bottles in her luggage. Though she was carrying her 9-month old daughter, “she was told she couldn't bring the machine through with the milk bottles empty, because that somehow meant the pump wasn't considered medically necessary. (Jezebel)” There was no private area in the airport where she could fill the bottles up, so the agent forced her to fill them up in the women’s bathroom in front of people. The pump had no outlet, so she had to fill the bottles next to the sink. "I had to stand in front of the mirrors and the sinks and pump my breast, in front of every tourist that walked into that bathroom,” she said. The situation left her embarrassed and humiliated. “The TSA has admitted that the agent made a mistake, and they've apologized for ‘any inconvenience or embarrassment this incident may have caused her.’ Meanwhile, in related news, TSA agents at New York's JFK airport let a woman get through security with a dagger in her bag this weekend. …show more content…
Michelle Brademeyer of Missoula, Montana’s four-year-old girl was forced to spread her legs for “security purposes” after “the child hugged her grandmother at a security checkpoint at [the] Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. (FOX News and Commentary)” The agent suspected that the child’s grandmother passed a handgun to her. “’They told her she had to come to them, alone, and spread her arms and legs,’ Brademeyer wrote, noting that her daughter began screaming, ‘No, I don’t want to.’ (FOX News and Commentary” After the child refused, they threatened to shut down the airport and cancel all flights. Brademeyer claims that her daughter is traumatized by this event, and she wakes up with
The target audience for this subject is Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees. This includes agents and the corporate branch. Readers are expected to have a general understanding of how air passengers feel while being searched and why some protocols should change. This report is also intended to educate employees on the seriousness of sexual harassment and give different ideas as to how to search passengers.
Fire. Destruction. Horror. These are a few of the understated words that describe the tragedy of 9/11. On September 11th, 2001, terrorists hijacked planes, then crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, causing thousands of innocent lives to come to an unexpected end. “Haunting …show more content…
Many people, the majority of them of the female sex, accused some agents of groping, sexual harassment, or unnecessary actions in general. Amy Strand from Maui was being searched in Kauai's Lihue Airport when an agent found an electric breast pump and empty milk bottles in her luggage. Though she was carrying her 9-month old daughter, “she was told she couldn't bring the machine through with the milk bottles empty, because that somehow meant the pump wasn't considered medically necessary. (Jezebel)” There was no private area in the airport where she could fill the bottles up, so the agent forced her to fill them up in the women’s bathroom in front of people. The pump had no outlet, so she had to fill the bottles next to the sink. "I had to stand in front of the mirrors and the sinks and pump my breast, in front of every tourist that walked into that bathroom,” she said. The situation left her embarrassed and humiliated. “The TSA has admitted that the agent made a mistake, and they've apologized for ‘any inconvenience or embarrassment this incident may have caused her.’ Meanwhile, in related news, TSA agents at New York's JFK airport let a woman get through security with a dagger in her bag this weekend. …show more content…
Michelle Brademeyer of Missoula, Montana’s four-year-old girl was forced to spread her legs for “security purposes” after “the child hugged her grandmother at a security checkpoint at [the] Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. (FOX News and Commentary)” The agent suspected that the child’s grandmother passed a handgun to her. “’They told her she had to come to them, alone, and spread her arms and legs,’ Brademeyer wrote, noting that her daughter began screaming, ‘No, I don’t want to.’ (FOX News and Commentary” After the child refused, they threatened to shut down the airport and cancel all flights. Brademeyer claims that her daughter is traumatized by this event, and she wakes up with