The Los Angeles subway system will become the first in the U.S. to install body scanners that screen passengers for weapons and explosives, officials said Tuesday.
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Transportation Security Administration had been testing several different types of body scanners for about a year.
The scanners that are being deployed are portable, and project waves to do a full-body screening of passengers walking through a station without slowing them down.
The machines, which scan for metallic and non-metallic objects on a person's body, can detect suspicious items from 30 feet (9 meters) away and have the capability of scanning more than 2,000 passengers per hour. (KOMO 4 News, August 14, 2018)
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No!, No!, No! & No! - Scanners that can be used from 30 feet away can scan you without your knowledge or consent. And while those who like the idea of body scanners in subway stations may envision something like the Total Recall Body Scanner (Movie Clip), the reality I think will be far worse.
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