VIPR is ramping up now, and their budget will be increased next year. Here's one more link to an Amtrak/VIPR search from earlier this month, indicating that the

VIPR is ramping up now, and their budget will be increased next year. Here's one more link to an Amtrak/VIPR search from earlier this month, indicating that the Amtrak head of police only succeeded in slowing rather than stopping the program. http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2011/11/tsa-conducts-vipr-operation-at-amtrak.html http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2011/11/tsa-conducts-... November 4, 2011 TSA agents search Amtrak trains in Sacramento Transportation Security Administration agents boarded Amtrak trains in Sacramento today to conduct one of their periodic VIPR operations, officials said. Our priors appear to be different on (a) whether the TSA's VIPR is likely to gain power and (b) whether they will start with centralized arteries like trains. From a practical standpoint, they can't set up checkpoints at every traffic intersection in the country, but they can set up checkpoints at every train station. Thus I don't agree that the two situations are equivalent in expected VIPR delay, and I do believe that we are going to see sharply increasing searches of Amtrak/train passengers, as nothing else TSA has done has been seriously resisted, let alone rolled back. But opinions may differ, so I'll leave it at that.