Forcing New Yorkers to undergo baseless scanning in order to ride the subway violates their Fourth Amendment rights, which protect people against suspicionless searches and seizures from the police.
The technology made by Evolv has an 'alarming record' of flagging items that are not illegal, such as laptops, citing an 85% rate of false positives from scanners installed at Jacobi Medical Center in 2022.
Adams said he wants the scanners - which must be monitored on site by police officers - installed on every subway turnstile in the city. 'So there's definitely going to need to be a manpower increase.'
Subway crime has decreased sharply since the temporary pandemic spike, as noted by The Legal Aid Society and the New York Civil Liberties Union.
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