Body Scanners on Street in Search for Guns

[Red James cash]

New York Moves to Deploy Body Scanners on Street in Search for Guns

January 18, 2012


http://newyork.cbslocal.com/video?au...clipId=6649118


NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly told CBS in New York his department is looking to deploy Terahertz Imaging Detection scanners on the street in the war on “illegal guns.”

Kelly said the scanners would be used in “reasonably suspicious circumstances” and intended to cut down on the number of stop-and-frisks on the street. So called stop-and-frisks are considered a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

New York City is largely a Second Amendment free zone. The city’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has said that citizens “acting outside of any governmental military effort” should not be allowed to protect themselves with firearms.

“The NYPD and Department of Defense are working together testing Terahertz Imaging Detection, a new way to get concealed illegal weapons off the streets,” CBS reports. Terahertz Imaging Detection measures energy radiating from the body up to 16 feet away and can detect anything blocking it.

The ACLU and civil libertarians oppose the effort to use the technology on the street. “It’s worrisome. It implicates privacy, the right to walk down the street without being subjected to a virtual pat-down by the Police Department when you’re doing nothing wrong,” the NYCLU’s Donna Lieberman said.

In addition to violating the Fourth Amendment, the proposed technology would subject citizens to a documented health risk – the destruction of DNA.

Studies reveal that THz waves “unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication,” according to MIT’s Technology Review.

For more information, see this paper posted at the Cornell University Library.

If we are to believe CBS, most residents either are not concerned about the privacy aspects of the technology or think it is a reasonable trade-off to stop gun crime and terrorism.

CBS does not mention the ability of THz to destroy DNA. If they did, no doubt most people interviewed would oppose the new technology.
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[snakeyes]

Be sure and line your hat with tin foil so they cant read your mind

[Red James cash]

snakeyes

Who needs tinfoil, these are all only conspiracy theories that i post.

[Dano Sverige]

Lol..really grasping at straws there! You can also read lots of "papers" at universities on how eating processed meat can give you cancer...and now all Americans will never eat another Hotdog or Hamburger...right?

[jeff of pa]

Tinfoil Long underwear.

actually Every New Yorker who Believes in Freedom
Needs to Stuff a Large rolled up Piece of Aluminum
Foil With a Hoagie or Sandwich On them.

& do this till the cops get Tired of reaching in Pants,

Or in enough Trouble, to throw the whole idea Out

[packerbacker]

Gotta wonder how well that technology will work on small guns made of composite materials with a lot of holes drilled in it like swiss cheese. There is always a way to beat this stuff.
Dano, where you been my man??

[Frankn]

It is already in use by SWAT teams. It can see thru brick walls. Frank

[jeff of pa]

will it work on the ground to see coins ?

[spartacus53]

It is already in use by SWAT teams. It can see thru brick walls. Frank

Maybe some houses, not mine Mine is lined in lead, even superman can't see in

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

May I remind you that the baddies will also soon have this tech to spot undercover police?

Don Jose de La Mancha

[Red James cash]

May I remind you that the baddies will also soon have this tech to spot undercover police?

The way things are now kind of makes you think that the baddies already have it