The random person you stop is a 94 year old grandmother with no bags. The next guy is a 20 year old white male sweating profusely with a huge backpack with wires barely visible and a serious attitude. Guess which one I would rather the police stop and search?
While they are searching the first person, they cannot be vigilant and watch for those people most likely to be dangerous.
I truly don't give a [EMAIL PROTECTED] about racial profiling when it comes to terrorism. If someone is more likely to be a terrorist, they should be more likely to withstand scrutiny. The only issue I have with it is when the police in their various forms target the wrong group due to lingering prejudices.
I agree that when the profile changes to include middle age white men with blue eyes, or 14 year old redheaded girls, the job is going to be more difficult. But racial and age clues should never be the only factor in profiling. But it should be one of them.
Jerry Johnson
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I think it would be much better to do random searches.
So..you have a machine or whatever and it randomly beeps when someone should be
searched, and whomever is coming through the turnstiles at that point gets
searched.
It can't be every tenth person, because someone can figure that out and thus
avoid a search.
Random means that no one can complain about racial profiling, its totally
random.
Heaven help America when they recruit white , blue eyed middle aged men to the
militant islamic cause.
-Gel
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