I'm angry this morning

[glatt]

I've been randomly selected before in airports too. This pisses me off so much because it's everyday life that they are doing this. Imagine if they randomly selected you at the N.J. state border on your commute to work. That's what this is.

I just wrote a letter to the board of directors of the transit agency. I hope they read it.

The sky's not falling, because it's only 15 cops to search 1.2 million people, but that's also why it won't work. So why go through the trouble of violating the rights of every law abiding citizen they do randomly select?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by glatt

I just wrote a letter to the board of directors of the transit agency. I hope they read it.

I still don't know if they read it, but they asked the metro police chief to respond to it.

His e-mail response to me (and everyone else, I'm sure) was about what you would expect. Citing precedent, public safety and terrorism, etc. Nothing surprising there, but this amazed me:

we will not announce dates, times or locations of inspections in advance. However, signs will be posted well in front of the inspection point to alert customers that a random inspection is taking place. This way if people would prefer not to have their items inspected, they may either return without the item or choose an alternative means of transportation.

With signs posted "well in front" of the inspection point the day of the inspections, they will not catch a single terrorist. This does nothing.