A team of Transportation Security Administration officers, known as a VIPR squad, at Washington’s Union Station last month. |
T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times
A team of Transportation Security Administration officers, known as a VIPR squad, at Washington’s Union Station last month.
The squad was not with the Washington police department or Amtrak’s police force, but was one of the Transportation Security Administration’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response squads — VIPR teams for short — assigned to perform random security sweeps to prevent terrorist attacks at transportation hubs across the United States.
“The T.S.A., huh,” said Donald Neubauer of Greenville, Ohio, as he walked past the squad. “I thought they were just at the airports.”
With little fanfare, the agency best known for airport screenings has vastly expanded its reach to sporting events, music festivals, rodeos, highway weigh stations and train terminals. Not everyone is happy.
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