cnn.com — A great deal of credit for VIPR improvement should go to Amtrak's police chief, John O'Connor, who was so outraged about an incident in Savannah, Georgia, in February 2011 that he angrily threw VIPR teams off Amtrak property until they learned how not to make fools of themselves.
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ano233Feb 7, 2012
"The TSA demanded that VIPR agents be allowed to enter yards at any hour of the day or night without notice and to watch employees from hidden positions. The railroads told the TSA to go to hell."
Hahaa, I wish more companies/agencies would follow the Amtrak Police's example, the TSA needs a good kick in the ass. They do nothing for security (as noted by several incidents in the article) and burn through billions of dollars.
aristotle0dudeFeb 7, 2012
Why have VIPR in the first place? Somehow America got by just fine without it for over a century before.
Closed AccountFeb 7, 2012
time to close the tsa.
barackalypseFeb 7, 2012
My favorite VIPR story was them checking people coming off a train and the people who refused to allow themselves to be searched were not allowed to leave the terminal and instead had to get back on the train and take it to the next stop where there was no VIPR team and they could leave un-harassed.
lounginlizardFeb 7, 2012
This would require common sense somewhere in the govt.
audguyFeb 7, 2012
Beautiful!
Graf_OrlockFeb 7, 2012
Wow! Good for him. Now I'll have to take a train trip just to celebrate being free of our inbred TSA teams.
ChuppacabraFeb 7, 2012
Yet the TSA falls under the same management team many diggers proclaim would manage our health care with effeciency, precision, discretion, and humanity.
keltickalFeb 8, 2012
Good for Amtrak but if the terrorists ever try anything, you can bet that the bozo Gestapo will again try to abuse rail passengers just like air passengers.
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