based on ethnic profiling,


Dave wrote:
That part sounds like a damned good idea.

Especially if you're a bigot.

...If you know what most of the bad
guys look like, it makes sense to look at people who look like the bad guys
do and not at 90 year old grandmothers. Damned few Finns fighting in
Afghanistan.


The problem is that a lot of people who "look Arab" or "look Muslim" are
in fact loyal tax-paying Americans. The success rate of finding
criminals (or terrorists) based on racial profiling is *proven* to be
lower than that of random chance.

There are several indicators that can improve the odds above random
chance, but dumb-ass prejudice against people whose skin is a different
color ain't one of them.

DSK