Something better to do » racial profiling http://blog.kamens.us Musings of an indignant mind Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:35:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Family “Letters to the Editor” Score: +1 http://blog.kamens.us/2010/01/11/family-letters-to-the-editor-score-1/ http://blog.kamens.us/2010/01/11/family-letters-to-the-editor-score-1/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:23:49 +0000 jik http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/?p=1211 In today’s Boston Herald:

Learn from Israel

Monday, January 11, 2010

The Israelis do not use racial profiling for airport security (“European response mixed to new U.S. security demands,” Jan. 4). They use profiling, which includes patterns of behavior, coordination of intelligence and sophisticated modeling of which country of origin as but one factor. Interviews at the airport are by trained army personnel and they are watching and listening to everyone, even Florida snowbirds. They are just doing it right.

Of course the U.S. should be profiling instead of harassing passengers and crippling the industry, but our technique of rounding up suspicious black men won’t catch Nigerian bombers, and it certainly won’t catch British ones.

- A… Kamens, Brighton

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