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There is no button labeled "Fuck the 4th Amendment" but a clever technician might know how to manipulate the results, if needed. But why would they need to? The
by fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
There is no button labeled "Fuck the 4th Amendment" but a clever technician might know how to manipulate the results, if needed. But why would they need to? They could just lie.
- ars 13y agoThe bigger question is why would they? To waste their own time?
- ctdonath 13y agoNo, because sometimes they need a plausible excuse to act on other suspicions. When working security, agents can sense something is wrong but not have it articulable enough in legal terms to act on. When the suspect says "why are you searching me?" it's a lot easier on everyone to say "the detector beeped, you heard it" than "I've got an uneasy feeling about you". (Not legal, not warranted, just easier.)
- ars 13y agoI'm pretty sure they don't need any excuse at all. They can just do a "random" screening - which is designed exactly for that. The only reason to keep screening him over and over is if the detector really did find something, otherwise they are just wasting their own time because of a nebulous feeling.
- ctdonath 13y agoOr they're playing psychological games. Repeated pointless activity tends to make people crack fast.
- ars 13y agoYou still didn't answer the question of why. Why make this person crack.
- ctdonath 13y agoUh... The person has already exhibited enough suspicious behavior and circumstantial evidence to get frisked & questioned in a back room and their ticket cancelled. Indications are this is the kind of person being looked for, and if is, at this point is trying very hard to not reveal any further evidence of ill intent. Time to crack the egg and see if it's rotten.