Sunday, January 01, 2012

No Cop Impersonating By TSA

Proposed law prohibits TSA employees from dressing like cops - Boing Boing

The STRIP Act, proposed in the US House of Reps, would require TSA employees to stop dressing like police officers, because they aren't cops, and when they give orders to travellers, travellers assume that these are the orders of real law enforcement officers, rather than minor bureaucrats:...

While we're at, why not extend this rule to include anyone who is not a certified police officer? Uniforms give some people a false sense of empowerment without a heightened sense of responsibility.

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