Originally Posted by Doppy
We're talking about billions to hire and train the people to do questioning, and tens, maybe hundreds of billions in lost passenger time each year waiting to be questioned.
And when it's all said and done, the profiling will be carried out by the same bureaucracy which conducts the current screening and shoe carnival and who also was responsible for the federal response to Katrina. Throw a few billion more at them, you think that'll help them get it right? We can debate the theory of profiling till the cows come home, but the jump from theory to acceptable, efficient and effective practice is nigh unto insurmountable.
Originally Posted by Doppy
The biggest issue with "Israeli style security" is that handling a couple dozen El Al planeloads of people each day (40 El Al flights vs. 35,000 US flights) is not a big deal. Scaling up from El Al's ~ 3 million passengers per year to the US's 670+ million passengers per year, on the other hand, is a big deal.
It scales geometrically, not arithmetically, so we'd need to clone at least 50,000 more Barts and Bambis to make this work. New hires off the street just won't understand the process or the constitution.