I did not see statistics on # of people stopped, # of people who were deterred, and less than a 100 succeeded in hundreds of thousands of flights.
Attempting to stop people or bombs in under carriage would EXACTLY BE SECURITY THEATER. That is an overreaction to insignificant but recently hyped/fear mongered threat that results in no statistically significant reduction in risk. But, writes up good in the papers.
People thinking like you are why security theater can exist.
The statistics lacking is a very good point, and a large oversight on my part.
However, I wasn't saying that we should be trying to stop this. I meant to show up, conversely, that a lot of the existing security is there merely for show.
Attempting to stop people or bombs in under carriage would EXACTLY BE SECURITY THEATER. That is an overreaction to insignificant but recently hyped/fear mongered threat that results in no statistically significant reduction in risk. But, writes up good in the papers.
People thinking like you are why security theater can exist.