Since Tuesday's subway attack, Mayor Adams has talked in vague terms about the possibility of metal detectors in subway stations. Is this the screening system he's referring to?
Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Right after the Sunset Park shooting, WCBS asked Eric Adams about the possibility of putting metal detectors at subway entrances. “People just need to feel safe,” the anchor said, and Adams responded that his deputy mayor of public safety is searching “the entire country and globe to find ways that we could identify guns.
On Wednesday, Adams once again brought up metal detectors in similarly vague terms. “Oftentimes when people hear of metal detectors, they immediately think of the airport model,” Adams said. “Those are not the only models that are available. There are new models that are being used at ball games, ball parks, hospitals where you’re not stopping to go through your belongings. You’re simply walking through.” He said he would bring up the idea with the MTA, which is a state-run agency.
Without more detail, it’s hard to guess exactly what the mayor is talking about. But what we do know is that the city is currently piloting a program at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx to use a detection system made by a Massachusetts company called Evolv Technology. As the Gotham Gazette reported in March, the device screens people without requiring that they stop or empty their pockets.
Civil-rights experts pointed out to Gotham Gazette that there isn’t enough independent research yet to back up Evolv’s claims about its machine’s effectiveness. And they brought up the immense privacy invasion of scanning kids at school. “It might be a little bit less obvious than metal detectors, and people will move through it more quickly. But the technology is no less invasive,” Daniel Schwarz, NYCLU’s privacy and tech strategist, told Gotham Gazette.
So what we know for sure: The mayor keeps talking about something that he says is like a metal detector, but not a metal detector. It’s “technology” and “innovation.”
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