Exactly - if they truly believe someone is doing something wrong, leave it up to law enforcement - not a bunch of (no pun intended) Mickey Mouse cops.
In general, the more I read about what is going on, the more I just want to shout - WHAT are folks so AFRAID of? Has anyone died of a violent act at WDW? Cripes, that's actually surprising that we don't have even some major domestic violence incident in the parks to point to.
The parks are closed systems. Anyone that goes in with the intention of doing something catastrophic isn't coming out of that park. They know it. And as we know, if someone is willing to trade their life for something, there isn't really tinkers darn we can do about it anyway - and pulling out random families for searches and all this garbage just for the privilege of overpaying for admission and going into a theme park for a day is just the height of ridiculous and and a stellar example of misplaced effort.
Those "Mickey mouse" cops are are very well managed and are very serious about the security of that property. I won't get into all it, but take it from experience when I was a CM, I got wrongly accused of something and got pulled out of work and into WDW Investigations and questioned by a bunch of former, very high ranking law enforcement. Thankfully, it was a case of mistaken identity and I was cleared. And I can assure you that the high level of attention I received would be pretty laughable given the actual issue they were investigating.
Therefore, I actually feel very secure about being in those parks. There is more security there than you can imagine.
That said, it is still a very, very big target. It is as big as an American Icon as you can get and there are countless people there every day. If i was a radical looking to make a dent in the American psyche, I'm sure it would be on my list to at least consider.
Now will that stop me from going? no, just booked our next trip this week. I think the percentages are too low for myself to be affected personally, but that's not to diminish the reality that it
could happen at some point. About the same mindset that no one thought that an event could happen like 9/11 before it happened. But that hasn't stopped me from going into a building ever again.
I agree with you that its very difficult to stop someone intent on doing it by random screening, but if the detectors give someone pause and not doing something catastrophic then it was successful.
I dont really have an issue with it. I wish it could be a little less obvious, like something that would detect larger sized metals inside the security awnings or ticket gates that we all go through anyway. Maybe they are moving toward that and this was just a way of quickly showing the world that they were taking notice and everyone should feel secure.
