It wouldn't take much special training to read my expression as: This is a crock. Grandmothers taking off their shoes - honestly! This illusion of security is tiresome and the whole exercise a sham.
New airport agents check for danger in fliers' facial expressions.
Next time you go to the airport, there may be more eyes on you than you notice.
Specially trained security personnel are watching body language and facial cues of passengers for signs of bad intentions. The watcher could be the attendant who hands you the tray for your laptop or the one standing behind the ticket-checker. Or the one next to the curbside baggage attendant.
They're called Behavior Detection Officers, and they're part of several recent security upgrades, Transportation Security Administrator Kip Hawley told an aviation industry group in Washington last month. He described them as "a wonderful tool to be able to identify and do risk management prior to somebody coming into the airport or approaching the crowded checkpoint."
I'm well aware of non-verbal cues and might even put stock in them in some circumstances; I just can't take anything these assholes do seriously.
[photo credit: Mike Farruggia, United States of Whatever, Mixed media, 2005.]
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