TSA Claims And Theft Statistics
Following are the claims made for theft by TSA agents between November, 2002 and August, 2004. The Transportation Security Administration revealed these number when a Denver radio station filed a freedom of information act request. I will look and see if there are any more current numbers available.
| New York (Kennedy) | 701 | $21,439,764 |
| Oakland | 299 | $1,272,211 |
| Los Angeles International | 1458 | $854,622 |
| Seattle/Tacoma | 904 | $470,025 |
| Las Vegas (McCarran) | 487 | $464,824 |
| Chicago (O’Hare) International | 963 | $454,901 |
| New York (La Guardia) | 662 | $443,395 |
| Miami | 837 | $396,303 |
| Fort Lauderdale | 648 | $340,544 |
| Orlando | 846 | $307,672 |
| Detroit (Wayne County) Metropolitan | 589 | $305,951 |
| Minneapolis/St. Paul | 691 | $271,133 |
| Boston (Logan) | 479 | $243,158 |
| Phoenix (Sky Harbor) | 827 | $239,585 |
| Philadelphia | 667 | $237,840 |
| Foreign | 201 | $233,518 |
| Tampa | 689 | $213,156 |
| Baltimore Washington | 502 | $198,969 |
| Hartsfield Atlanta | 327 | $188,772 |
| Newark | 411 | $181,160 |
| Washington D.C. (Dulles) | 353 | $170,069 |
| Dallas-Fort Worth | 462 | $161,978 |
| West Palm Beach, Florida | 327 | $145,839 |
| San Diego | 390 | $141,494 |
| Denver | 366 | $138,327 |
April 30th, 2006 at 8:01 am
We should not submit to any security check until there is zero crime committed by Airport and TSA staff.
Due to regulation on number of bags, I was forced to place one of two laptops needed for my work, in my suitcase and hand it to TSA. They stole my laptop. I did notify TSA, Airline, and Police. Their response was that anything of value should not be placed in my bag.
They could have gone to my originating airport and made sure they had searched all staff that had access to the suitcase. They refused. They even refused to finger print the bag to determine who did this action.
If you have people working at the airport that are thieves, then they will assist a drug dealer and terrorist for 10K.
We are executives that submit to being humiliated by some cheats and thieves and forced to take our shoes, belts off and then have these people commit any crime freely and easily.
This has to stop. We need to stop to submitting to security check, until they clean their own house.
We are not safe at all at this moment, I think it is even worse then it was before; as we could have pressured airline, when they had bad staff. Now authorities are stealing.