- If NYPD has it, other large port cities or metropolitan areas must have them as well. Florida jurisdictions have featured prominently for Stingrays and other military tech, wouldn't be surprised to find Orlando or Miami or what not sporting them as well.
Edit: Read the rest of the article, apparently U.S. News has found "[more than] 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside." The use case is to intentionally expose people to the xrays.
- Are they getting warrants for these scans?
- What ombudsman process or other audit-able legal infrastructure is in place in New York City that allows non-police persons to establish the veracity of the warrants they get to run these scans?
- How do we confirm scans only expose the specific people identified in the warrants to x-ray radiation?
- If collateral private spaces are scanned along with the intended target, how does NYPD ensure those images are destroyed (as they're outside the scope of their warrants)?
- The court discussion mentioned in the article indicate the specific technology used in these vans has been repeatedly banned from use on humans, by US and other authorities. Where is the non-company-funded, reviewed-and-published study data showing this backscatter x-ray tech isn't harmful?
- If NYPD has it, other large port cities or metropolitan areas must have them as well. Florida jurisdictions have featured prominently for Stingrays and other military tech, wouldn't be surprised to find Orlando or Miami or what not sporting them as well.
Edit: Read the rest of the article, apparently U.S. News has found "[more than] 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside." The use case is to intentionally expose people to the xrays.
- Are they getting warrants for these scans?
- What ombudsman process or other audit-able legal infrastructure is in place in New York City that allows non-police persons to establish the veracity of the warrants they get to run these scans?
- How do we confirm scans only expose the specific people identified in the warrants to x-ray radiation?
- If collateral private spaces are scanned along with the intended target, how does NYPD ensure those images are destroyed (as they're outside the scope of their warrants)?
- The court discussion mentioned in the article indicate the specific technology used in these vans has been repeatedly banned from use on humans, by US and other authorities. Where is the non-company-funded, reviewed-and-published study data showing this backscatter x-ray tech isn't harmful?