{"id":5011,"date":"2010-12-21T16:34:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T16:34:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T16:34:06","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5011","title":{"rendered":"Washington Metro police starts random bag checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post\/8594\/wmata-bag-searches-make-transit-less-safe-not-more\/\">WMATA bag searches make transit less safe, not more<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This morning, the Metro Transit Police began conducting the system&#8217;s first random bag checks. These inspections are couched in the language of security, but they actually make the system less safe. <\/p>\n<p>Passengers boarding during the morning rush at Braddock Road and College Park faced these screenings. The Washington Post&#8217;s Dr. Gridlock reported that one man&#8217;s check took 8 minutes, and yet nothing threatening was found. <\/p>\n<p>People have been objecting to these random bag checks on a variety of grounds. The ACLU says that they infringe on civil liberties. Dr. Gridlock disputed the argument that they are a &#8220;necessary evil,&#8221; writing that &#8220;To be a necessary evil, a thing must be both necessary and evil,&#8221; and that this policy is only the latter, not the former. Even Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton thinks they&#8217;re ineffective. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5011\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}