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Old Jan 4, 2014, 6:26 am
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petaluma1
 
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Originally Posted by gsoltso
The combination of those techs is something that would change the way we do things in a fundamental manner. Depending upon your POV, it has been held up due to privacy concerns, costs and in some cases the scalability of the devices has been questioned. There is also the testing that has to be done on these items in a realtime enviornment to see if it can stand up to the everyday workload and surrounding elements - remember the "puffers", they are an excellent piece of equipment, they also had cost overruns and problems with being broken down in the real world setting of checkpoints.
"Privacy concerns" my eye. The TSA has never had any concern for privacy. What did Napolitano say about enhanced/resolution pat downs? Something to the effect of the "public is just going to have to get used to police style pat downs." Chertoff on AIT said, to the effect of "just shut up and get in the machine."

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Re: stop and frisk

I agree that stop and frisk has been a challenging process and the numbers are hard to refute (although we probably have a few folks on here that can cite statistics on the positive impact the process has had and well reasoned explanations for the statistical differences).
2011, 685,724 stops; 780 guns found. Do the math.

http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/11/19/...d-frisk-scare/

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