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Re Los Angeles Is First in US to Install Subway Body Scanners
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 03:46:13 +0900
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From: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw () gmail com> Date: August 15, 2018 at 11:21:36 PM GMT+9 To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com> Subject: Re: [IP] Los Angeles Is First in US to Install Subway Body Scanners Oh, great! Suppose I'm a carpenter, work jobs around town, can't afford a car, use the subway to get to work. So I carry my power drill, nail gun, and other tools with me (no checked bags on subways!). Or, more personally, I used to carry a medical unit involving battery power, electric leads, electrodes, ... One day at the airport TSA did an extra-careful inspection because they mistook it for a tazer. I have friends who have taken cookware to their young relatives by airplane. They take it carryon because of baggage weight limits. They report that TSA is actually familiar with this behavior. Oh, probably including pressure cookers. So, are these machines good enough to select the actual dangerous items from the detectable ones, or will there be a paralyzing rate of false positives?On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:08 AM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Subject: [ NNSquad ] [I predict a fiasco.] Los Angeles Is First in US to Install Subway Body Scanners Date: August 15, 2018 at 10:30:38 AM GMT+9 To: nnsquad () nnsquad org [I predict a fiasco.] Los Angeles Is First in US to Install Subway Body Scanners https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/Los-Angeles-is-First-in-US-to-Install-Subway-Body-Scanners-490860461.html Los Angeles' subway will become the first mass transit system in the U.S. to install body scanners that screen passengers for weapons and explosives, officials said Tuesday. The deployment of the portable scanners, which project waves to do full-body screenings of passengers walking through a station without slowing them down, will happen in the coming months, said Alex Wiggins, who runs the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's law enforcement division. The machines scan for metallic and non-metallic objects on a person's body, can detect suspicious items from 30 feet (9 meters) away and have the capability of scanning more than 2,000 passengers per hour. - - -This message was sent to the list address and trashed, but can be found online.
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