<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Bouncer:
How about deploying the millimeter wave radar/thermal imaging cameras that basically strip the clothes away from your body and instantly reveal what you're carrying underneath? THESE ALREADY EXIST! No need for touchy feely pat downs, much faster to process people through (About 1 person per SECOND) and the software can even be programmed to blur or fuzz areas of the body for modesty reasons. The combination of thermal imaging and low level radiation detection will INSTANTLY reveal a gun like or knife like object.
It works. It works well. And there aren't any deployed anywhere in the States. Why the heck not? </font>
First of all, these devices are in test deployment but has both privacy and health concerns attached. If you fuzz out select areas of the body, what's to prevent someone from just hiding items in those areas?
The reports I've seen indicate that devices of this type was deployed in MCO and MIA, and people are given the choice of body cavity search or the see-through radar. A surprisingly large number of people would rather have the body cavity search than being scanned. People just don't trust this technology yet.