re: #150 Dark_Falcon

Often the public can’t be told for critical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) tech is used, because the public knew then gangs and terrorists would change how they operate in order to make the tech less effective.

That’s one reason to avoid giving out certain details about how the equipment works, but there’s a serious health component since it’s using radiation to scan vehicles/equipment and potentially people as it goes through the City. There’s a further issue of privacy and unreasonable searches, and a backscatter x-ray on a public street without the person’s knowledge may be an unreasonable search.

The vehicles might also be able to scan buildings, which would increase the likelihood of violations of civil rights.

I get using a vehicle like that to scan a car that may already be suspected of having weapons, explosives, or drugs - but doing so to a line of cars just because the NYPD has the tech? That seems to be testing the bounds of civil rights/protections of the public and an infringement on the public.