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Re:DC police used sonic cannon to direct crowd flow during W... by azernik on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:29AM (#16013262)
"Repeated/prodded thoroughly" matches all of the descriptions of the long-form interrogations by Israeli airline and airport security. If they got to the 100 shekels in his wallet, then that means they probably asked him about a lot of other things first, and searched his wallet, and probably tried to put together a timeline of exactly when he went where to try to find cracks in the story.
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Re:DC police used sonic cannon to direct crowd flow during W... by stevenjohns on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @10:19AM (#16015187)
Not really. It was a standard run-of-the-mill search. The shekels are the only thing they were genuinely interested in. They couldn't comprehend why I had gotten it.

It was bizarre.

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Re:DC police used sonic cannon to direct crowd flow during W... by azernik on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @03:50PM (#16017911)
Weeeeeeeeeeeird.

But then, I'm Jewish Israeli, so I don't have a lot of first-person experience with the full interrogation experience, just second-hand accounts from both sides of the table.

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Re:DC police used sonic cannon to direct crowd flow during W... by alexeldeib on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:36PM (#16016836)
This is the theory that I'd heard behind the strategy. Having not experienced it myself, I'm curious how it plays out in practice. It seems they have a high true positive rate and low false negative (i.e., properly suspecting people who should be suspected), but perhaps also a somewhat high false positive rate? This still would be favorable in my eyes to the security in America.
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