I participated in this project with my dog for two years. I stopped as the clunkiness of the web ui and lengthiness and frequency of the surveys. The experience left me dubious as to the project's methodologies.
Those situations are not made up. Come to Colorado, the real Southpark: Fairplay, CO is a great mining/ranching town turned to tourism. Then in Lakewood, CO we have Casa Bonita a type of creative possibly formerly somewhat-racist dinner club with actors who diving into a pool. It was purchased by the Southpark creators, and remodeled recently. There is a wait list to get in. The old place had notorious bad food. Its real man. Come I will show these situations were not made up by the creators solely embellished.
Does the TSA officially work with local law enforcement? I am not sure about their policy, but many TSA staff want local law enforcement jobs. As such, TSA staff will do whatever they preceive as favor to local law enforcement to gain "preceived" advantage from local law enforcement in future hiring "you scratch my back, I will get yours" type situation and mentality. Problematically, the favor depends on the customs and courtesies of the location. Overall, this leads to what a previous poster described as a "win" for point counting congresspeople while leaving society less safe and vulnerable to self interest of a TSA staffer for personal gain.
Do it! Start-up meet-ups and find a way to make the labor, especially the idle labor, more productive. This is entreprenuerism. It is also hard and then there are the costs--who pays?