A friend in NYC emails:

Wave my civil liberties goodbye!

Starting tomorrow, NYPD will be conducting random bag checks, and if you refuse you can’t get on the subway.

I asked him if he knows what they’re looking forother than obvious explosives, I suppose. Is anything banned on subways, like they are on planes? Knives, guns, etc?

I can only imagine what a mess this will make of the commute. Unless check are infrequentwhich then raises suspicions of profiling. Troubling, either way.