Originally Posted by
Deeg
Yup, sure is. That's the main reason that CBP has a random selection program as well as targeted selection. The statistics show that the travelers targeted as suspicious by an officer are many times more likely to have contraband than a randomly selected traveler. Last I heard (several years ago), it was by a factor of 30-odd times more likely. I call that a successful system.
Saying "Yup, sure is" to indicate that a 50+% false alarm is "a system that's been shown to work quite well over many, many years" seems to be one of those "Good job, Brownie" moments during Hurrican Katrina -- another roaring success for DHS. Since the creation of DHS/DHS-CBP, the government has been doing a worse job in this regard than before the creation of DHS.
If a judge kept granting warrants to local police that resulted in finding nothing as often as is the case with DHS-CBP, what do you think would happen?