Boston's Logan Airport 'Rife' with Racial Profiling: Report
<div class='node-body'><p>The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has opened an investigation into claims that racial profiling by security staff is a widespread and often encouraged practice at Boston's Logan airport, according to a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/us/racial-profiling-at-boston-airport-officials-say.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=global-home" target="_blank">new report by <em>the New York Times</em></a>. The agency cane under fire this month after 32 officers' filed written complaints at a Logan TSA meeting, some of them anonymous.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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