Actors: Skip the NYPD blues

With security tighter since the 2001 terror attacks, the union that represents TV and film actors is advising its New York-area members to stop carrying police costumes to TV and movie sets.

The Screen Actors Guild said in a statement posted on its website that “an apparent shift in city policy” may put actors at risk of arrest if they are stopped while carrying anything that looks too much like a real police uniform.

The odds that actors might be stopped and questioned on their way to work went up this month when police began conducting random searches of passengers’ bags in New York’s subway system. The guild said two of its members had been detained by security personnel at an airport and a courthouse in recent months for possessing police costumes.

From Associated Press