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Old Jan 10, 2010 | 10:56 am
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Wally Bird
 
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Originally Posted by Mats
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I used to think that behavioral profiling made some sort of sense. But now I'm reconsidering. The best I can imagine is that the BDO's are new, newly trained, and want to test out their skills.

I hope that this was a one-time incident.
One-time for her hopefully, but I'm certain other passengers are subjected to this bull on a daily basis.

Behavioral profiling does not work in an airport termianl environment. At best, it may be useful as an adjunct to conducting interviews; for picking people out of a line up it is useless even for trained, competent practitioners. The TSA's "officers" don't come close to that definitiion.
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