Xtract One CEO Evans flags “vanity metrics” in weapons detection, urges focus on capture rates

• Xtract One’s CEO Peter Evans challenged weapons-detection vendors to report capture rates, not headline counts.
• He argued that weapon detections without a denominator amount to marketing rather than performance measurement.
• He cited an Illinois hospital deployment that reported stopping more than 20 firearms in a year.
• Using a 1.3% carry rate and 500 entrants per day, he estimated roughly 2,372 firearms could have entered, implying a capture rate below 1%.
• Under a more generous assumption that 90% of people would not bring a firearm into a hospital, he put the capture rate below 10%.
• Evans also critiqued a separate claim of 62 firearms detected per day.
• Using 900 million people screened per year and the same 1.3% carry rate, he estimated a roughly 0.02% capture rate.
• He urged buyers to demand detection performance as a percentage under defined operating conditions, including sensitivity settings and secondary screening.

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