It was a year ago today that I issued my own terror warning. It was just a drill. And what a co-inky-dink, a year later, a federal appeals court rules that random searches are legal. Legal, maybe. Smart, no.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Random bag searches by New York police at subway stations are constitutional and an effective means of combating terrorism, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.
"In light of the thwarted plots to bomb New York City's subway system, its continued desirability as a target, and the recent bombings of transportation systems in Madrid, Moscow, and London, the risk to public safety is substantial and real," the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals said in its ruling.
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