Two dots that should be connected on the T?

BadTransit takes a look at the possible reasons for instituting random bag searches when there's no apparent imminent threat against local public transit. You'll be shocked to learn that politics might be involved. But not just a certain governor's bid to show how tough he is on Godless heathens on subway trains terrorists. Might T Police Chief Joseph Carter have had reason to institute searches now? Like, say, wanting to appear tough and decisive and stuff in front of the 30,000 police chiefs coming into Boston this weekend for the International Association of Chiefs of Police annual conference?

Spatch, meanwhile, thinks up an appropriate haiku.