It seems New York City is looking to take a leap into the future. They are looking to equip some Police vehicles with super high tech scanners that will scan people walking on the streets of New York searching for concealed firearms.
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly dropped this little bit of information on us Tuesday at the State of the NYPD event. It seems this scanner will use infrared radiation to scan unsuspecting citizens as they walk down their streets. ANYONE that has a concealed firearm will show up on the scanners monitors.
The infrared radiation technology that allows this scanner to work is called terahertz imaging detection. It works on the fact that the rays do not pass through metal. This enables the imaging system see the outline of a firearm while being carried on a person.
Now I understand that New York City's Mayor Bloomberg is one of the biggest anti gun nuts around, but trashing the United States Constitution to move his anti gun agenda forward is not the way to go about it.
One of the main issues I have, besides it being unconstitutional, is what about the people that actually do have a license to carry a firearm in New York? How will these scanners determine the legal from the illegal firearms? Will law abiding citizens continually be stopped and harassed by the NYC Police Department for legally carrying a gun?
The way I see it, this is giving the NYPD the power to search people whenever they choose with no probable cause, no warrants and a total disregard for privacy and the Constitution.
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CFWard57 says:
Where have you been? New York has been violating Constitutional rights on a huge scale for years, particularly with its practice of randomly stopping mostly minority people on the streets and searching them – a deliberate perversion of the Terry stop. Tens of thousands of people have been subjected to this indignity with nary a peep out of the people on the right except to say that those people must have done something to excite police suspicion. Now that they’re moving to the next level and EVERYONE’S facing a potential electronic search they’re getting all excited. Good. Maybe it will cause people to think again about whether it’s such a good thing to have roving squads of police stopping and searching innocent pedestrians and arresting those who question or resist their right to do so.