NEW YORK (PNN) - January 20, 2012 - New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly is considering a new technology, Terahertz Imaging Detection (TID), to be mounted on thug cop cars, allowing them to roam the streets of New York looking for people carrying guns, in the process violating the rights of countless innocent people.
The Fascist NYPD, sometimes referred to as the world’s “seventh largest army”, with 35,000 uniformed officers, already does a brisk business frisking potential suspects, with little pushback.
In the first quarter of last year, 161,000 New Yorkers were stopped and interrogated, with more than 90% of them found to be innocent. There are cameras already in place everywhere: in Manhattan alone there are more than 2,000 surveillance cameras watching everyone all the time.
But this new technology will avoid the necessity of doing public pat downs because it would allow thug cops to note, from their cruisers, who is carrying heat. The technology, effective up to 16 feet (with improvements in longer scans already being tested), measures body heat and indicates any “blockages” of that heat by metal obstructions, assumed in most cases to be handguns carried on the person.
What it can do is “allow the NYPD to conduct illegal searches by means of scanning anyone walking the streets of New York,” according to a report at RT.com. “Any object on your person could be privy to the eyes of the detector, and any suspicious screens can prompt pig thug cops to search someone on suspicion of having a gun, or anything else, under their clothes.”
Commissioner Kelly assured investigators that the scanners would be used only in what he calls “reasonably suspicious circumstances.” However, he refused to clearly define what that term means.
Regardless, it is a long way from the language in the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees, “The rights of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
