The screening process is voluntary, Wiggins said, but customers who choose not to be screened won’t be able to ride on the subway.

A statement only a government employee could utter.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/08/no_author/los-angeles-is-first-in-us-to-install-intrusive-subway-security-all-riders-will-volunteer/

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The frog supposedly does not feel the slow increase of temperature until the water it sits in boils. In a similar vein people to not feel the loss of their freedoms when the observation and control instruments used on them are slowly more and more intrusive. The city of Los Angeles ratchets the screws up a few notches: Los Angeles is first in US to install subway body scanners

Los Angeles’ subway will become the first mass transit system in the U.S. to install body scanners that screen passengers for weapons and explosives, officials said Tuesday.
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The machines scan for metallic and non-metallic objects on a person’s body, can detect suspicious items from 30 feet away and have the capability of scanning more than 2,000 passengers per hour.

The capacity to check 2,000 passengers per hour is way too small for a subway line which usually has between 20 and 30,000 passengers per hour…  Read the rest of this entry »