Originally Posted by
Randyk47
NOTE: Just watching CNN and they had a report from New York. One of the main points made over and over again was New York's "See Something, Say Something" anti-terrorist/terrorism campaign. Where and how do you draw the line?
As is often the case, Bruce Schneier said it best, back in 2007.
https://www.schneier.com/essays/arch...the_war_o.html
If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.
We need to do two things. The first is to stop urging people to report their fears. People have always come forward to tell the police when they see something genuinely suspicious, and should continue to do so. But encouraging people to raise an alarm every time they're spooked only squanders our security resources and makes no one safer.