[COBOL2Java]

Hey! Is that guy mooning me?

[beethovenfan]

Death ray?

[TigersEye]

Hillary will want to order several hundred of these to assist with her Mandatory Gun Buy-Back program.

[Twotone]

Conspiracy ping...

[easternsky]

“The Nature of whats going on in the World" Well perhaps if the Intel is that Horrific perhaps they should inform the people so we can protect ourselves.

[ex91B10]

“I will not talk about anything at all about this — it falls into the range of security and counter-terrorism activity that we engage in.”

They will use this excuse alot on the way to subjugating the populace.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Opens up a huge market for lead-infused home siding and truck panels.

[Rockingham]

Most likely, the vans are being used in a test as to whether newly developed terahertz backscatter imaging technology can reliably detect guns, knives, drugs, and explosives in the street-level environment. Unlike x-rays, terahertz energy at the levels relied on in such devices would not damage DNA.

If such technology works, it would provide a non-invasive and non-discriminatory way to do the equivalent of an ongoing stop and frisk of an entire crowd and a close search of passing vehicles. This would help combat crime without arousing concerns over discrimination and harassment in stop and frisk contacts based on police suspicion.

[centurion316]

This is a Backscatter system. It’s been used on the border, in Iraq, and Afghanistan for years. A smaller system was used in airport security, but have been replaced by the millimeter wave system which does not use X-rays.

Probably not a good idea if you are subjected to X-rays every day, like airline crews, but for the occasional use, this is not any more dangerous than the airport versions.

[ViLaLuz]

Texas DOT has them, too.

[minnesota_bound]

You could stand by the van and get a free MRI : )

[BobL]

NYPD had to be using “some tools” to assist their stop-and-frisk, in order to virtually eliminate crime, which was done under Rudy/Bloomberg. Now that NY has a “kinder, gentler, mayor”, crime is being allowed to spike again.