From Metro:
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced that the NYPD is pursuing a controversial new technology in the war against illegal guns: body-scanning devices.
Kelly said the NYPD, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office, is working to develop a tool capable of detecting concealed firearms.
The device can read radiation, or heat, emitted from a person’s body. The radiation does not travel through metal, allowing officers to “see” the outline of hidden weapons.
The NYPD is testing the new scanners, which currently only work from three to four feet away. Kelly said he’s hoping they will soon operate at a distance of more than 80 feet. Police will install the scanners onto NYPD vans to direct at suspects.
But some are concerned that the NYPD will abuse its new power. Donna Lieberman, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, sees the new technology as a double-edged sword.
“On the one hand, if technology like this worked as it was billed, New York City should see its stop-and-frisk rate drop by a half-million people a year,” said Lieberman. “On the other hand, the ability to walk down the street free from a virtual police pat-down is a matter of privacy.”
9 comments:
Many who live in this city don't approve of stop/question/ frisk. How about suspending it for the month of August..............
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin February 17, 1775.
As if stop and frisk wasn't enough. Now we have stop and scan :)
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin February 17, 1775.
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"They" have an agenda but we can see right through THEM!!!
Mom's advice was to always wear clean underwear. You never want to be embarassed when the hospital staff after your accident undress you in the emergency room.
Same goes for the NYPD scanning guys.
Nothing worse than walking around with Fruit of the Loom full of poop dreck.
If you don't want your body heat scanned, chill out.
What do you have to hide?
So you carry your "heat" in a shielded pouch...so as not to give away its distinct signature profile.
Then what's next Commish Ray?
re: anon-1. Actually you will need a heated-pouch (for example, a solar-heated hot water bottle) to match the heat of the rest of your body to avoid the scan.
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