From my experience at Logan, TSA is an equal opportunity pain in the neck!

So the guy was asked to show ID and refused...why is he better than the rest of us that he doesn't have to follow rules? Is it possible that maybe these profiled people avoided eye contact or were sweating as the criteria calls for? And single travelers are notoriously singled out, my white dad had his sandwich searched when he traveled alone on a one way ticket to drive my grandmother home. TSA is a headache...why do people always have to claim racism? It sucks for everyone, even 5 year olds who are pulled away from their families for extra screening.

While Boston has tried for decades to eliminate its profile as a racist city, the people who live here know otherwise. The report of profiling at Logan Airport is not surprising in the least...there has simply not been the kind of systemic, top-to-bottom cleanup of the system to remove the bad apples who bring down the entire city's police, fire and other emergency responders. DWB is a very common "crime" on the streets of Boston and its suburbs, and the police will deny it 'til the day they die. It cannot be chance; the laws of probability do not stretch that far. Finally, if Boston really wants to work on a legal problem, it can start enforcing the traffic laws...I know, tired topic, but since nothing gets done, decade after decade after decade, a topic that will not go away. Why not convene a citizens' counsel to tell Boston cops what laws they should enforce FIRST, SECOND THIRD and so on. There are so many laws that Bostonians simply ignore once they get behind the wheel of a car because they know no Boston cop is ever going to bust them for an illegal left turn, not yielding to pedestrians or driving too slowly for prevailing conditions. Boston wants to close its budget gaps? Start writing tickets and start telling cops to take the time to go to court to prosecute them. The BPD will soon have so much money, it won't know what to do with it all....wait, I have an idea! Fix the damn potholes all over the metro area so those of us with chronic medical problems don't feel like we're on Six Flags' roller coaster every time we drive up or down particular roads in Boston. Oh, wait # 2...can you also start to time the lights so cars can flow through ther city instead of stopping, going one block, and stopping, going another block, and stopping; going a 3rd block, and stopping. You wonder why road rage is so bad here, it's because the BTD doesn't do squat to make the roads in the area safer and user-friendly. It's not difficult. I just went to AZ and CO for 10 days; I don't think I went through a single pot hole! My back was singing spirituals by the time I got back. And 20 seconds after getting in my car here after arriving, I had gone through 3 bone-rattling holes. Dedicated,focused effort on this social nuisance would take care of things. So, fix the profiling at Logan, and start enforcing the traffic laws so those of us who try to follow them and expect, with reasonable certainty that the scofflaws will get busted and ticketed for having their own DMV booklets. Thanks, A local guy.