[New York] NYPD will begin testing a new high-tech device that scans for concealed weapons

[PoliticAverse]

The NYPD will soon deploy new technology allowing police to detect guns carried by criminals without using the typical pat-down procedure, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday.

The department just received a machine that reads terahertz — the natural energy emitted by people and inanimate objects — and allows police to view concealed weapons from a distance.

“If something is obstructing the flow of that radiation, for example a weapon, the device will highlight that object,” Kelly said.

A video image aired at a Police Foundation breakfast Wednesday showed an officer, clad in a New York Jets jersey and jeans, with the shape of a hidden gun clearly visible under his clothing when viewed through the device.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-readies-scan-and-frisk-article-1.1245663

[Downwinder]

1. TSA goes mobil.

[Glassunion]

2. Yay!!!

Stop and Frisk get a new face.

Sorry, but that cell phone, inhaler, car keys, wallet, anything but the color of your skin... looks like a gun... Let me toss out your 4th amendment rights and go ahead and search you and question you on the validity of why you are walking the streets in the most populous city in the United States.

[Duckhunter935]

3. oh, come on

whats loosing a few rights. If it saves one child. Where have I heard that before.

[iiibbb]

4. I'm sure rhey'll only use this for guns

won't abuse this at all

[holdencaufield]

5. Well ...

... anyone who might carry a gun would carry an unapproved book or subversive literature. You can never be too careful when it comes to security.

[iiibbb]

6. I like how that have it set up to work on a nice realistic minority gangbanger...

... police aren't biased at all.

[Downwinder]

7. Nope, everybody on the sidewalk becomes a nudist to NYPD

with their x-ray vision glasses.

[Eleanors38]

8. Good, let them experience the horror!

[PoliticAverse]

9. rt.com video story on the scanners...