Comments on: “Show me your papers!” http://talkradionews.com/2008/10/show-me-your-papers/ The Talk Radio News Service is the only information news service dedicated to serving the talk radio community. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:46:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Carl Weaver http://talkradionews.com/2008/10/show-me-your-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-25285 Carl Weaver Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:28:57 +0000 http://talkradionews.com/?p=21172#comment-25285 I spoke with a member of the WMATA police force a year or so ago who is somewhat high up and he told me that they were looking into sniffers for bomb detection. That technology is still being looked into but is relatively expensive to install, especially in every Metro station. However, this stop-the-13th-person thing is crazy. This is becoming more of a police state all the time. Metro is public transportation, a service they cannot restrict people from using without a court order, as far as I know. Dawn - you know this stuff better than I do. So if they cannot stop me from riding, how are they going to make me submit to an unwarranted search? Seems like the expensive technology is the way to go if they want to maintain ridership and keep people from getting PO'd about this. I spoke with a member of the WMATA police force a year or so ago who is somewhat high up and he told me that they were looking into sniffers for bomb detection. That technology is still being looked into but is relatively expensive to install, especially in every Metro station.

However, this stop-the-13th-person thing is crazy. This is becoming more of a police state all the time.

Metro is public transportation, a service they cannot restrict people from using without a court order, as far as I know. Dawn – you know this stuff better than I do. So if they cannot stop me from riding, how are they going to make me submit to an unwarranted search?

Seems like the expensive technology is the way to go if they want to maintain ridership and keep people from getting PO’d about this.

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