Wednesday, July 31, 2013

TSA misconduct jumped up 26 percent in three years

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If you've been bothered by the TSA lately, there's a good chance that you're not alone. In a review of the Transportation Security Agency's workforce, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that incidents of employee misconduct had jumped up 26.6 percent between 2010 and 2012, from 2,691 to 3,408 incidents each year. The majority of those problems were fairly mundane — anything from sleeping on the job to showing up late — but the GAO did find that there had been thousands of cases of misconduct across the three year period that potentially involved more serious affairs, including 56 accounts of theft, 97 accounts of property damage, and 456 drug and alcohol related issues.


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