Originally Posted by studentff

If I need the police, I'll call the police. For the most part I think they're more honest than TSOs, but they also have more power. But I won't have friendly chats with cops and would never invite them into my home. My SO never understood that mentality until I explained to her that a cop could come into our home for an innocent chat, see her large (legal) collection of DVDs sitting on a shelf in plain sight, assume that they were criminally pirated or that there are so many that at least one must contain child porn, and get the collection seized and us charged, triggering thousands in legal bills.