November 29, 2005
" Bag Search " at Bay Ridge Avenue
Four or five policemen at Bay Ridge Avenue R station this morning. I walked by them with a laptop bag. They only stop some of the passengers with bags. Even though I would have missed the next train if they had stopped me, I wish they had. This policy is just for show. Almost nobody gets searched.
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Don't you feel this policy is important?
I think it is very important to do searches...my only complaint is that there are too few of them.
so, how would you rectify this situation?
I know that it is not possible in a subway system as vast as NY's to search every bag, but I would
a) have more frequent searches at individual stations, and
b) when there are searches at a station, I'd search the bags of a higher percentage of people passing through. I think it can be as low as one in every 15 or 20 people now. That's ridiculous. I'd go for one in two or one in three. That would be more meaningful.
i think they look at faces and judge the reaction when i was growing up in belfast in the 70's the city centre was totally blocked and every man woman and child even in there prams were searched going from this to aus i first would wait at doors of dept stores waiting to be searched out of habit
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