Backpack Searching

[DioChasek]

Currently sec holds significant advantages against almost every single antag in the game. Giving them a portable tool that makes it even easier to detect hidden items is a bad idea.

yeah but security isn't just given carte blanche to off traitors, and it is remarkably easy to retrieve any confiscated equipment from the contraband lockers

Well yes but here is the thing. On classic after the antag is apprehended there is nothing to stop sec from just using the items themselves, or if they are bigger jerks just throwing it in the grinder. This is before we get into the absolute shit show valid hunting would become with an item that lets you just search a backpack with a single click instantly. 

Then we have possible irl comparisons to the ever encroaching surveillance state and all of the complaints and ahelps that will bring for rule4 violations that come alongside with it.

It is a bad idea to give a portable harassment machine to security. It is going to just breed even more resentment towards the department and give them a leg up that they quite frankly do not need.