Boston to Begin Random Baggage Checks on Trains
"Too often these types of programs are a mask for ethnic and racial profiling. And if it is truly random, I don't see how that improves security."
The head of Boston's mass transit police said Tuesday that officers will begin random baggage checks in the first program of its kind instituted by a major American city to help guard against explosives being detonated in stations or on trains. [more]