The NYPD's practice of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking hundreds of thousands of people on city streets each year has received widespread criticism.
This month, though, the skepticism seems to have morphed into fury and resistance, after the TSA instituted a new pat-down policy requiring those who refuse the full-body scan to undergo a fairly-aggressive frisking.
News of the device prompted concerns from privacy advocates, though they also saw a potential benefit: It might render unnecessary the legally disputed police policy of stopping and frisking people who haven't been first identified as suspects in crimes.