The recent internet kerfluffle over body-scanners and molester-guards has raised once again the question of racial profiling. I say "internet kerfluffle" because that is exactly what it was. Internet junkies and activists worked up the froth and bubble and... and then nothing. This is because we tend to get confused between The Internets and Real
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The lost revenue from Muslims not being allowed to fly would be far larger than the cost of say conducting a full body cavity search on every muslim who wishes to do so.
Of course this assumes that you accept the falsehood that Profiling must be based on a single characteristic such as race or religion.
The fact is that profiling done right considers all factors age, gender, race, religion, country of origin, documentation, dress, behavior, and so on and if you are not doing it then you are not doing security because you are wasting your scarce resources to conduct random searches on people that any 6th grader could determine pose no threat to anyone in about 10 seconds only to find a pair of nail clippers they mistakenly left in their pockets while the real threat sails past because he was not chosen for a random search.
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If 95% of all terrorists are males between the ages of 18 and 30 who originate from The Middle East or North Africa and worship Allah (which is true) then one cannot claim to actually be trying to make anything secure while ignoring this fact.
That those terrorists make up only 1/100th of 1% of the population who fits that profile is irrelevant devoting security to people who fit that profile is 19 times more likely to identify a terrorist than security spent investigating anyone who does not fit that profile.
The question then becomes what kind of extra security you will apply to this profile, one need not immediately jump to body cavity searches just because they fit the profile, it could be as simple as 3 extra questions asked by the security agents trained to detect deception to see if they warrant further investigation. In fact the extra security could be largely invisible to the target should he pass the check.
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That would make you about the only person on the planet who does.
That said where did you get the impression I was saying to use racial profiling in place of behavioral profiling? I was clearly indicating that both should be used at the same time and that the racial aspect of the profiling should inform the types of behavior anomalies that one should be looking for.
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That said where did you get the impression I was saying to use racial profiling in place of behavioral profiling?
I don't get that impression. The only impression I have of this exchange is that you're railing on about something else entirely, as I said, having completely misinterpreted the argument to begin with, and flailing about with rhetorical questions and analogies about candy. You don't know what you're arguing, you're just arguing.
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If 95 out of 100 terrorist acts in Saudi Arabia were committed by white males between the ages of 30-50, I can practically guarantee the Saudi's wouldn't let hangups with racial issues prevent them from looking at me more closely.
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Good enough.
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I'm curious about that myself.
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