I'd rather they figure out a n efficient way to get everyone through metal detectors faster than do this "random" selection process
I haven't seen the random too often and when they are doing it, there's is 2-3 times more security around eyeing everyone and that's only the uniforms. ak has always been everyone scans, as well as epcot international gateway entrance. epcot more often than not some group is getting everyone scanned. also the trained dogs they are using have really increased in numbers..
If you go by a
recent report, ready creek is dropping some serious money on deputies with a guess that spending is up 4 times what it was previously (and you can see it, they are everywhere with random officers in some interesting spots watching roads and walking traffic like never before. that doesnt' count how much disney itself is spending... they've never played around but right now its 5-7 times what it was when everyone was here for the megameet (and this was before the guns were discovered).
there is something going on construction wise that at first I thought was making a space for ferry waiting to be off the walkway for boats (a few really bad nights with massive crowds over the summer)... but it's also in a spot that if you reworked the walkway everyone could easily be scanned further from the ticket entrance.... Hollywood has the space to shift around some of the
This is from oct 1 and it was zoomed in as it was a far away shot but you can see the green walls from left of the ferry dock all the way to the edge of the dock that for awhile was a smoking section. what you can't really tell from it is it also goes far right ended just before the exit you take from the ferry and includes the walkway aroudn they put ropes up for the ferry waiting overflow and then it goes back (towards the mk entrance) ending at the edge of the walkway (but I suspect they might push further out when it's closer and can have people walk a different way..
since that picture was taken, the extra unused dock has has it's overhang removed and you can see from the monorail that it's been completely leveled like they are about to build a new building or something they would want a flat area for..
Here is my best
@Robo impression for where the walls are roughly (from memory).
From this view it looks like they might plan to close off the gap that right now is the ferry and bus walkway around the walls and make it a larger scanning area, different ferry entrance and could have monorail and resort come across to it and remove that middle entrance or leave it as an exit .. you could also shift the ferry waiting to be on the other side of the ferry building when they need more space in that area with the soda machines at the entrance of the second bus loop.
EDITED TO ADD: When the second set of tables is in use, there is almost nobody at the middle security scan, that's about 95% of the people entering MK so it makes sense to rework that area to me and a minor inconvience for people getting off resort boats or monorail to walk a few more feet over to it also.
Regardless, my point was that any security point presents an area before security where people are gathered, and that alone presents a target. Brussels saw that last year. There's only so much that can be done to prevent that. No security is instantaneous. And if places that have done this for *decades* only have a 5% success rate in actually catching weapons, then that leaves me with the thought that perhaps the method itself just is not all that effective.
