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Title: TSA's new policelike badges a sore point with real cops
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USA Today
URL Source: http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2008-06-15-tsa-badges_N.htm
Published: Jun 18, 2008
Author: Dennis Drenner
Post Date: 2008-06-18 10:09:00 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 115
Comments: 10
TSA's new policelike badges a sore point with real cops By Dennis Drenner for USA TODAY Transportation Security Officer Derrick Ward sports a new policelike uniform and badge as he screens passengers in Baltimore. Screeners will receive the new uniforms throughout the year, as the Transportation Security Administration aims to professionalize its workforce. By Thomas Frank, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Screeners at the nation's airport checkpoints are going to start wearing police-style badges — but real officers aren't too happy about it. Some sworn officers fear airline passengers will mistake screeners for law-enforcement officials with arrest powers. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is starting to equip its 48,000 screeners with 3-inch-by-2-inch, silver-colored, copper and zinc badges that will be worn on new royal-blue police-style shirts. The attire aims to convey an image of authority to passengers, who have harassed, pushed and in a few instances punched screeners. "Some of our officers aren't respected," TSA spokeswoman Ellen Howe said. Actual airport police, who carry guns and have arrest powers, worry that their own authority will be undercut by screeners who look like police. Every major airport has its own police department or is patrolled by local police.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Any guesses on how long it will be before they're issued Tasers?
#3. To: lodwick, PSUSA, all (#1)
Invest in wool. It's going to take yards and yards of wool to make the uniforms of some of the oinkers I see doing this work.
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