Are you seriously that dense? If you take all of the other possible criteria of a profile and then add 'Muslim' or 'Jew' or 'Irish', you can't see how it would narrow down the 'suspect pool'?
I not advocating that a profile consist of ONLY a person's religion, rather that their religion COULD (and in some, but not all, cases, SHOULD) be an integral part of a profile. How hard is that to understand? On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > It helps to narrow down the 'suspect pool', the more criteria used, the > > more accurate the profile becomes. Why is that so hard to believe. > > > Seriously? Ok how is it going to narrow it down? I can only see it > narrowing > it down if the people investigating terrorism have absolutely no other > info. > If it's a matter of sifting through say, 20 billion vs 17 billion > (arbitrary > numbers) people in the investigation then I can see adding Muslim would > help. The people investigating terrorism (I would hope) have much more to > go > on then what religion the possible suspects practice. > > > > > > > > If you were mugged and the police asked you for a description, would you > > leave out that they were black because that might be 'profiling'? I > don't > > think so. You would give the police as many details as possible, > including > > their race (and religion, if it might be obvious based on their attire). > > > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > How many non-Irish do you think are part of the IRA? > > > > > > > > > Exactly. > > > Does that mean we should start investigating all Irish as possible > > > terrorists? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:291702 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
