> catch a terrorist.
> 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?
Well theoretically there'd never be a point at which suspiscious
looking people aren't stopped, regardless of how many people are
randomly searched.
> I agree that when the profile changes to include middle
> age white men with blue eyes,
Ever notice how the majority of serial killers and mass murderers
happen to be white, middle-class men? ... and yet, all our racial
profilers target black and middle-eastern people... Dahmer, Manson,
the Unabomber, the anthrax guy... the sniper was the exception rather
than the rule, and in the exceptional case, the fbi's profilers were
looking for a white man! Racial profiling is imoral ... not to mention
ineffective. While I believe the reason more of these people happen to
be white has more to do with population density (there happen to be
more white people here than elsewhere), having a profile doesn't
result in the same amount of scrutiny for everyone, plus additional
scrutiny for those who fit the profile. It provides the police with an
excuse to be lax with people who don't fit the profile -- an excuse to
be lazy instead of vigilant. Not that they aren't lazy anyway just
because people are lazy, but the profile just makes it easier for them
to say "oh he's not a threat".
s. isaac dealey 954.927.5117
new epoch : isn't it time for a change?
add features without fixtures with
the onTap open source framework
http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=44477&DE=1
http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=45569&DE=1
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