Only two opt-outs in a month at LAX?
Nov 23, 2010, 11:29 am
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As a point of comparison, this New York Times article today says:
Mr. Burdette, 41, is a former Marine and counterterrorism investigator who keeps his hair short and his dark-blue suits crisp. As the supervisor of the 700 or so officers at B.W.I. who screen as many as 40,000 travelers a day — of whom fewer than 3 percent request pat-downs — he takes the morale of his troops seriously, and resents any smirking dismissal of them as burger-flippers in toy-cop uniforms.Simple math says that "fewer than 3%" still translates to almost 1,200 opt outs a day at BWI.
Mr. Burdette, 41, is a former Marine and counterterrorism investigator who keeps his hair short and his dark-blue suits crisp. As the supervisor of the 700 or so officers at B.W.I. who screen as many as 40,000 travelers a day — of whom fewer than 3 percent request pat-downs — he takes the morale of his troops seriously, and resents any smirking dismissal of them as burger-flippers in toy-cop uniforms.
Nov 23, 2010, 11:37 am
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I'll see your Bravo Sierra and raise you a Baloney Sandwich on rye 
as this is probably "just as accurate as the numbers provided by the TSA" 
in the weekly "body count" thread
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...-1-2010-a.html
as this is probably "just as accurate as the numbers provided by the TSA" in the weekly "body count" threadhttp://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...-1-2010-a.html
Nov 23, 2010, 11:48 am
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. (T-5; 11/11/2010) where contrary to the previous TSA position, the nude-o-scope was being used as primary, singular/only means of screening perps. As I always will, I opted out.
Nov 23, 2010, 11:50 am
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I'm wondering how they are getting their numbers. In a story about Tampa they state:
On Friday, one of four peak travel days during the Thanksgiving holiday stretch, only one traveler refused to be touched or screened. He caused a loud scene and eventually was escorted from the airport, she said.
and then went on to list all the people they had to pat down for other reasons
At the Southwest Airlines checkpoint on Monday afternoon, some travelers —mostly elderly or handicapped — were pulled aside for pat-downs because they could not raise their arms or stand still in the body scanner machines.
One woman in a wheelchair covered her face after a female security officer felt closely around her breasts and up her pant leg.
Figg, who also uses a wheelchair, stood against a chair for balance as a male officer prodded his inseam.
"I am all for security measures and I want to feel safe on the plane,'' he said, "but I think the methodology here has some room for improvement."
I'm starting to think they are only counting people who refuse to be scanned and patted down, not those who choose the walk through and a pat down.
Otherwise, of course, their numbers make no sense at all, it's a total non issue, and they should not be addressing it at all.
On Friday, one of four peak travel days during the Thanksgiving holiday stretch, only one traveler refused to be touched or screened. He caused a loud scene and eventually was escorted from the airport, she said.
and then went on to list all the people they had to pat down for other reasons
At the Southwest Airlines checkpoint on Monday afternoon, some travelers —mostly elderly or handicapped — were pulled aside for pat-downs because they could not raise their arms or stand still in the body scanner machines.
One woman in a wheelchair covered her face after a female security officer felt closely around her breasts and up her pant leg.
Figg, who also uses a wheelchair, stood against a chair for balance as a male officer prodded his inseam.
"I am all for security measures and I want to feel safe on the plane,'' he said, "but I think the methodology here has some room for improvement."
I'm starting to think they are only counting people who refuse to be scanned and patted down, not those who choose the walk through and a pat down.
Otherwise, of course, their numbers make no sense at all, it's a total non issue, and they should not be addressing it at all.