TSA’s nine-hundred-million-dollar profiling program yielded no proven security benefit

Evidence

From 2007 to 2012, TSA also employed roughly three thousand BDOs and spent close to nine hundred million dollars on the SPOT program alone (U.S. Government Accountability Office 2013). A review of SPOT in 2010 by the Government Accountability Office concluded that despite this enormous budget, the program yielded little in terms of preventing a terrorist attack (U.S. Government Accountability Office 2013). — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 166

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is a clean empirical hook: an expensive surveillance program proven ineffective that nonetheless persists — worth connecting to why failed security programs survive politically.