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Why no consistency on airport security?

I flew twice last week. Two different airlines. The security at a large airport here in Florida was rushed and rather lax. The other was a smaller airport in upstate NY. The security was stricter. Full body scans, scanning of drivers liscense . If you had on a sweatshirt, sweater, or any double layered clothing it had to come off. So why is security not consistent?

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1. I've noticed that. In NY, well think about it. 8 years ago hundreds of people died because security detected a threat and did nothing about it. for example: In the St. Louis airport when we left behind a suitcase they simply brought it to us at our gate, but when we were flying out of Miami I accidentally left my suitcase behind right outside of security. I don't understand why it was such a big deal, it had already made it Through security, but they shut down the entire airport and were about to call in a bomb squad (no joke. I swear!) when we found it. we got delayed an hour cuz of a dumb suitcase that was already outside of security and had been checked. already checked suitcase=bomb? they also asked me if I was wearing clothing under my hoodie and made me take it off. My backpack got emtied and completly looked through after being scanned, and they made everyone walk through the detectors twice. Even a 2 yearolds "sparka-ly pur-pleee...dol...phin!" had to be run through several scans instead of letting my poor sister carry it through the detectors and not make her cry for the next hour
2. One reason could be technology. Bigger airports have better technology available to them then smaller ones do. Also there are other little programs within TSA that smaller airports may not be doing. And another reason is staffing. Obviously smaller airports don't have the workforce that larger ones do. Its also local policy's too. The Federal Security Director has some power to make local policy's so they can say what can come off and to scan dl's etc.