Originally Posted by AArlington
In principle I'm for some sort of profiling system.
Of course... and if it's race-based or religious-bigotry promotion, then some are even more for it, right?
Originally Posted by AArlington
But... as long as the refusal to remove one's shoes doesn't constitute "suspicious behavior" alone then it may be ok.
Is it possible to train all TSA'ers to consistenly correctly profile somebody? Profiling is not an exact sicent to begin with. I've met some fairly intelligent and nice TSA'ers but I doubt in an organization that large that a majority of the employees could easily be trained up to a level to make this truly effective. But if all they do is refer suspicious persons to a LEO that may be ok. We'll have to see how this works out.
The biggest thing is communicating a standard as to what is suspicious.
This "behavior" profiling will fail. People find suspicion when and where they want to and fail to find it where they see those who are like them.
The "standard" for "suspicious" will be "suspicious" in some instances and suspiciously "not suspicious" in other instances .... and failure will result and large numbers of people will be harassed.
Welcome to the police state of tomorrow .... and to its advocates who will run afoul of it too.