Fair enough. Badly worded and you caught me.bdickens wrote:The potential?
It is already a huge problem....
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- Fri Aug 09, 2013 8:24 pm
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Re: Anyone Had Contact with VIPR Yet?
It is already a huge problem....
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 11:47 am
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
- Topic: Anyone Had Contact with VIPR Yet?
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Re: Anyone Had Contact with VIPR Yet?
We are from the government....we are here to help. 
I heard about this yesterday on the radio. Scary...
I heard about this yesterday on the radio. Scary...
I wonder how long before they don't co-opt local LEOs and just decide to run things themselves because they can?T.S.A. records show that the teams ran more than 8,800 unannounced checkpoints and search operations with local law enforcement outside of airports last year
I haven't run into any of these teams myself, but at least some in Congress, etc. have problems with them as well according to the article. This has the potential to grow into a huge abuse of power...In 2011, the VIPR teams were criticized for screening and patting down people after they got off an Amtrak train in Savannah, Ga. As a result, the Amtrak police chief briefly banned the teams from the railroad’s property, saying the searches were illegal. In April 2012, during a joint operation with the Houston police and the local transit police, people boarding and leaving city buses complained that T.S.A. officers were stopping them and searching their bags. (Local law enforcement denied that the bags were searched.)