Originally Posted by
jphripjah
You may be flagged for mandatory referral to secondary inspection your next arrival. Or the officer may have merely made notes about you that future officers can see but that don't result in an automatic flag.
I'm curious why you say you were "randomly" selected for a bag search, most referrals to secondary inspection are not random at all.
Many — even if not most — selections for the bag search are based on neither computerized/automated flagging nor the passenger declaration. People often use “random” to refer to outcomes that aren’t mathematically random but are built upon unknown factor(s), factors that may not even be rational and consciously known to the (manual) outcome-selecting party.