On 12/28/09 8:39 AM, Jim wrote:
thunder wrote:
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:08:39 -0500, Jim wrote:


That is exactly one of the problems with profiling. You don't spend
20% of the resources. You spend 80% of the resources, and ignore all
the rest. Put two people on an airplane, one a young Muslim man, the
other an older white woman. The woman is carrying the bomb. While all
the airport security focuses on the young Muslim man, the woman slips
on board.
Rediculous. You would never get a job as a profiler.

Yup, but consider, this last incident was caused by a black Nigerian,
not an Arab. As I said before, if you want to profile a terrorist,
fine, but if you think racial profiling is the answer, you are going
to miss a lot of terrorists, McVeigh, the Unabomber, the Shoe Bomber,
Black Widows, etc., etc.

I doubt if you have any data to back up your suppositions.
Profiling is a tool. Reading body language is another. Intelligence
another.

flajim learned all this on the only real job he's had...chipping paint
on the deck of a ship 35 years ago when he was a navy boy.