terrorism = traffic tickets? ABC News on air marshalls' pressure to meet "quotas" for identifying terror suspects

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ethan Ackerman <eackerma () u washington edu>
Date: July 26, 2006 10:01:19 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: terrorism = traffic tickets? ABC News on air marshalls'  
pressure to meet "quotas" for identifying terror suspects

Greetings Dave,

ABC News 7 in Denver has series of stories & interviews that are also  
online at

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/7newsinvestigates/index.html

The series investigates several aspects of apparent Air Marshals
management-employee disputes, but most disturbing is the disclosure of
an alleged "quota" requirement within the service for filing
"Surveillance Detection Reports" identifying suspicious passengers.
The "quota" system was apparently disclosed by disgruntled former
Marshals, who point to directives requiring "Each federal air marshal
is now expected to generate at least one SDR per month" and that
citizens identified in these reports are placed on various watch
lists.   Apparently filing a certain minimum number of reports was
necessary for performance review and compensation purposes.  The
managers contacted did not deny the memos but did say that no quota
existed.  The investigations have apparently gotten some Congressional
attention.


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