Originally Posted by
Fredd
It would be useful if there could be some kind of consensus on what the word profiling encompasses. I'm inferring from your use of it that you're referring to racial profiling, which is just one kind of profiling. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Your right, there are many types, but if you read here you will note that this is exactly what the TSA’s BDO’s do, yet the posters here find absolutely no worth in their duties. I, on the other hand, have seen them at work and can vouch for the skills they have been taught.
Originally Posted by
Fredd
I believe anybody who's gotten a Nexus pass, Global Entry, etc. has been
profiled. Isn't the
TSA No-Fly list also profiling?
Profiling other than racial or religious may be controversial in other ways, but it seems to be a fairly basic tool in a lot of police and intelligence work. At least one
expert argues that "Behavioral assessment profiling isn't the problem. Abuse of behavioral profiling is the problem..."
Yes, but then again we are back to BDO’s and the local opinion. An interesting thought here is that the locals disparage BDO’s for no other reason than that they wear the same uniform that I do. It has nothing to do with the efficacy of their training or techniques, its rank bias and nothing more.
Originally Posted by
Fredd
I don't think the TSA is equipped to do this. There have been some well-publicized problems with the No-Fly list. What do others think? Is there any kind of smarter security between the extremes of no security at all and X-Ray and or invasive pat-downs of virtually everybody (other than the exceptions which seem to be in contradiction of the exercise
)?
To see one must open one’s eyes. Put the prejudice back in your pocket for a few minutes and take an honest look (if you can, I know how difficult that can be) at what the TSA does and how. Keep the preconceptions away for a while and instead take an unbiased look. The problems with the NFL are miniscule, tiny, and over-blown massively by the media and the folks here who cannot be intellectually honest about anything having to do with the TSA.