Originally Posted by
boatseller
First, the only reason this program got funding is because they came up with a cool acronym which seems to over-impress a lot of Washington types.
Any reasonably decent profiler is already or will be employed by better agencies like the FBI, CBP proper or even NYPD. A 5-day program is laughable.
Even a 15-day program would be laughable and even more of a waste of resources. Getting lucky a single time after harassing a couple hundred or thousand "innocent" persons -- as is rather routine with such efforts -- is a laughable attempt to justify any such voodoo "security" practice for commercial passenger travel.
There is nothing reasonably decent about profiling individuals for criminal activity when a crime has not yet been committed by the hassled individuals, as pretending that mind-reading is a science is indecent to the core and used repeatedly as a cover for all sorts of indecent nonsense.