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Poll: NYorkers Back Subway Searches

NEW YORK -- A large majority of the city's registered voters support random bag searches of bus and subway passengers, according to a poll released Friday. In a Quinnipiac University survey of 1,601 voters, 72 percent favored the searches while 25 percent opposed them. Support was solid among blacks, whites and Hispanics. Random searches of packages and backpacks carried by people entering city subways began last month in the wake of the bomb attacks in London subways. Posted by Editor at August 20, 2005 09:53 PM