Something just happened in Hollywood that seems to happen frequently, a package left on the street is resulting in an evacuation of the nearby area and stopping all street traffic.
I bring this up because it seems to me that a device of the type that CDEX had previously made should be able to scan the package and rapidly determine if it's really a problem.
My point is that while we may not have scanners that can scan a broad area to determine if there's a problem, as we'd like to have, the scanner we do have is capable of resolving problems like the one above in minutes. This type of problem frequently takes hours to resolve, and frequently results in the package being blown up only to determine there was nothing harmfull inside.
Strategically placed scanning devices could probably assure that packages were scanned within 30 minutes of them being found, far quicker than that in Airport's, etc.
Gary
