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> The National Guard members will conduct random bag checks on passengers I'm not asking this out of disbelief, but just out of genuine curiosity: What is the legal foundation that allows them to randomly search people who are simply going about their day? What happens whenever people say "no, you can't search my bag." ?
This is a guess, but authorities are allowed to search you on airplane. This might be a mass transit exception.
It's interesting to see how the pushback to this is a lot more muted than when Bloomberg implemented stop & frisk for largely the same reasons.
It’d be great if we were mature enough as a society to have a nice chat about why there is so much suffering and crime in American cities but alas.
Is there really that much? NYC murder rates are down 80% from their peak in 1990. We're roughly at 1950s rates.
We could ask why this happens in NYC and other US cities but not in Tokyo, Singapore, Bangkok, or Paris. In years of using mass transit in Asia I have not once witnessed the kind of conflict I’ve seen in NYC and SF every day.
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This only applies to the gov't
If you do some reading, I believe you will find that the National Guard is part of the government.