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Originally posted by dodo
so why did the police not round up all the black and saudi's whith the anthrax scare? would that have helped? and what if the was a saudi student. would that further your point?
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Because the profiling led them to believe it wasn't black people or saudi's who perpetrated that.
They think it's a white male of the homegrown terrorist variety who is apparently educated and has access to such things.
I agree with profiling to a degree...it doesn't always work...but has shown to be successful.
I don't think people should be pulled over in their cars solely because of race...but when working security detail at the airports and looking for terrorists or drug runners you shouldn't be shaking down 70 year old Swedes on vacation instead of the 24 year old Saudi national who is only carrying on one piece of luggage and bought his ticket 2 hours before the flight...you would of course focus on more appropriate suspects.
Profiling worked the first time the shoe bomber guy was turned away at the airport...they just failed to follow up on that and allowed him to return and get on an airplane.