Originally Posted by
tehiota
its becoming more and more obvious that TSA is using LEOs like puppets for their dirty work and one would think that that they/LEOs wouldn't like non-superiors pulling their strings.
It seems that way, doesn't it? TSA staff don't have the power to detain or arrest, but I repeatedly read reports of TSA airport security guards calling the police to hassle -- even arrest, sometimes -- people who are accused of violating TSA's seemingly unwritten rules.
In the Flyertalk "
BNA Police Officer Threatens Arrest for Filming TSA Checkpoint, Confiscates Phone" thread, a
Flyertalk user who claims to have worked as an airport police officer
wrote about getting daily updates about TSA's ever-changing policies, but despite repeated
requests for him to explain what bearing TSA policy has on his job of enforcing the law, he has not done so.