There goes your privacy!
If you've ever felt violated at the airport thanks to all of those fancy body scanners and search mechanics, you might be unsettled to learn that the police are developing a mobile version of the full body scanners found in many modern airports. Such a device would allow the police to scan the streets from the safety of their cars without anybody even knowing about it.
Although it is being designed to help officers determine whether or not somebody is armed and dangerous, we have a feeling such a device might cause some controversy regarding privacy. Seeing as how some people are already upset about searches at the airport (a place we expect to be searched and scanned) giving police the ability to scan people anywhere without their consent or knowledge could be bad.
The project was announced earlier this week by NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly who stated that the NYPD and the Department of Defense were able to create a successful prototype. The current prototype is only capable of scanning from a range of three to four feet, but Kelly is fairly confident the device will soon be able to reach up to eighty feet. If the project does continue and reach such a long range, we just hope the device produces images clear enough to differentiate between a firearm and an iPod.
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Great, now the police can continue their practice of sexual assault & harassment + they can give us cancer too!
I thought that people had right to carry a weapon for their protection in U.S, but I guess I was wrong. Even from this article we can deduce conclusion having weapon = being suspicious and dangerous.
i see potential health issues here.
I dont have anything to hide...do you?
I thought that people had right to carry a weapon for their protection in U.S, but I guess I was wrong. Even from this article we can deduce conclusion having weapon = being suspicious and dangerous.
The right of the cops to violate your rights is an American value!
hopefully the range won't get bigger, for now we should just walk as far away from the road when we see a police car
hopefully the range won't get bigger, for now we should just walk as far away from the road when we see a police car
Gonna stash weapons like hitman
Attention pedophiles! Join the NYPD! Look at naked kids from the safety of your patrol car.
I dont have anything to hide...do you?
No, I have nothing to hind and no the police have no reason to look and see if I do. This technology is fine for police personal who have a search warrant to search a building and it's occupants, but to be used on the streets without warrant or consent of those scanned presents a Constitutional Rights violation. This technology should only be used when a person would otherwise be patted down. The argument that police can search you because you have nothing to hide is crap and should be treated as such.
So what happens when someone has a concealed weapons permit and is legally carrying a firearm? Guns drawn from the police while being told to get on the ground?
Terahertz radiation unzips your DNA! This is scary stuff on many levels. Thank heavens I live in a state where it is legal to defend yourself. 1984 is now.
America does not understand that PRIVACY includes within it the right to do things which the police may not like. That's part of the whole deal. This is just one more step towards the destruction of the USA. It is a horrible country and I am glad I left.
and if i have a concealed weapons permit?
excuse me sir, is that a gun or you just happy to see me?
and if i have a concealed weapons permit?
Don't you understand? Once they deploy this we will all be safe. You will have no need for that silly permit anymore. /sarc
Well, they have open carry, which is perfectly legal....
So, as long as you don't hide ur weapon, ur fine....
Violation of 4th amendment.....WOW what a country we live in...
Oh, yes. Aim it at the gonads.
Take away their reproducing abilities.
And ours along with them.
(why no edit button, tomsguide?)
Sir, we apologize. Our intuition was way off. THAT isn't a gun as we can now clearly see. But, oddly enough you seem happy to see us.
Ouch...my sperm !.......
I dont have anything to hide...do you?
My Smith & Wesson. Dont leave the house without it.
NDAA, Patriot Act, terahertz scanners, X-ray vans. I am seeing kind of a trend developing here.
Given the quality of US policing, I'm glad I'm not from the US!
I thought that people had right to carry a weapon for their protection in U.S, but I guess I was wrong. Even from this article we can deduce conclusion having weapon = being suspicious and dangerous.
The NYC Police Department has the right to deny concealed weapons permits (which apparently they almost always do) even though it's legal in New York State. They employ the "may-issue" permit strategy where the state says it's ok, but local jurisdictions may impost their own conditions on the approval process.
So from that perspective, this is an enforcement issue of an existing laws. Not saying I agree with violating privacy, but the only way to see if someone is hiding a gun is to stop and ask them, or scan them without their knowledge!
As an act of protest, people should strap themselves with metal cutouts in the shape of handguns.
I am assuming that the longer the range they try the more power this scanner would need, which could cause some potentially serious health issues. Also with so many people everyday walking around New York how reliable will it actually be? I mean can it really handle scanning, just guessing here, the 1 to 10 people in its area and be able to distinguish between a weapon and a non-weapon? Too many variables that have not been answered in this article or by the NYPD and the DoD.
Hey its not like I was using my 2nd or 4th amendment anyway...
So what happens when someone has a concealed weapons permit and is legally carrying a firearm? Guns drawn from the police while being told to get on the ground?
Exactly. To take it a step further lets have a person in two slightly different scenarios. Each scenario has the person doing the same thing that grabs an officer's attention, but their scanner picks up a concealed weapon in one of them, how much differently will the officer(s) react now in that situation versus the other?
I have a LEGAL cc permit myself, but I would most definitely feel like an unknowingly "marked" criminal walking the streets with this tech in police cruisers - rather than what the intention of me carrying in the first place being quite the opposite.
I dont have anything to hide...do you?
That's not the point you idiot. I am not willing to give up my rights, just so easily scared and manipulated sheep can feel "safe."