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Old Apr 9, 2011 | 9:52 am
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RichardKenner
 
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Originally Posted by Affection
The TSA has claimed in sworn legal documents in my lawsuit that the pat-down rate is about 3%.
The pat-down rate or opt-out rate? For the latter, they said in oral arguments in the EPIC suit it was 3%, then corrected in writing to say it was 2%. If we're talking about the actual pat-down rate, there was a long discussion of the 3% number back around the beginning of the year. At that point, my feeling was that my observations at the checkpoint matched that rate. But now it looks to me like it's way below that. I haven't seen a pat-down done at any checkpoint I've been through in the last month and a half. If that's a statistically valid sample, it suggests the rate is now below 2%.
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