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kdmellow Jan 16, 2014 5:10 pm
TSA Stats
 
Does anyone happen to know if and where legitimate TSA statistics are published? I found a TSA blog that touts their "success stories" but I would only consider it a partial truth. Several other publications indicate that for every "success story" there are probably many more misses by the TSA. I would imagine that the real truth lies somewhere in between.

Thanks in advance.

NextTrip Jan 16, 2014 10:52 pm
Originally Posted by kdmellow (Post 22169029)
Does anyone happen to know if and where legitimate TSA statistics are published? I found a TSA blog that touts their "success stories" but I would only consider it a partial truth. Several other publications indicate that for every "success story" there are probably many more misses by the TSA. I would imagine that the real truth lies somewhere in between.

Thanks in advance.
Who would be compiling these "statistics" on misses?

yandosan Jan 17, 2014 8:21 am
I calculated my own stat, similar to a "Batting Average."
250 million people checked, 0 terrorists discovered.
It works out to a clean .000 average.

FliesWay2Much Jan 17, 2014 2:01 pm
Originally Posted by kdmellow (Post 22169029)
Does anyone happen to know if and where legitimate TSA statistics are published? I found a TSA blog that touts their "success stories" but I would only consider it a partial truth. Several other publications indicate that for every "success story" there are probably many more misses by the TSA. I would imagine that the real truth lies somewhere in between.

Thanks in advance.
The only stats they contrive are the ones they use to pander to Congress. The weekly gun total on Propaganda Village is but one example of their pandering.

There is no incentive for them to keep any meaningful statistics. First of all, one would have to answer the question of which metrics are worth keeping track of and why?


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