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The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets |
2015-10-21 |
If it annoys the NYCLU then it can't be all bad. [TheAtlantic] In New York City, the police now maintain an unknown number of military-grade vans outfitted with X-ray radiation, enabling cops to look through the walls of buildings or the sides of trucks. The technology was used in Afghanistan before being loosed on U.S. streets. Each X-ray van costs an estimated $729,000 to $825,000. --The NYPD will not reveal when, where, or how often they are used. "I will not talk about anything at all about this," New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told a journalist for the New York Post who pressed for details on the vans. "It falls into the range of security and counter-terrorism activity that we engage in." He added that "they're not used to scan people for weapons." Here are some specific questions that New York City refuses to answer: o How is the NYPD ensuring that innocent New Yorkers are not subject to harmful X-ray radiation? |
Posted by:Sven the pelter |
#5 The NYPD has one the best antiterrorism units in the US. Probably a result of an ancient historical event back in 2001. |
Posted by: Pappy 2015-10-21 17:33 |
#4 "The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets" The targets may be "unknown" to the public, but you can bet your @ss Bloomie's city is NOT spying on Islamonutcases or certain minorities - wouldn't be PC. |
Posted by: Barbara 2015-10-21 14:12 |
#3 Likely a mobile backscatter X-ray machine. It can see through metal that radar cannot. Z Backscatter Van |
Posted by: Betty Hitler2611 2015-10-21 11:09 |
#2 do they mean these people: O-PENâ„¢ Radar ?? The Tech Stupidity of the writers of articles like this... X-Rays! *Sigh* |
Posted by: magpie 2015-10-21 10:56 |
#1 Warrants? We don't need no steenking warrants! |
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-10-21 08:43 |