02 janeiro 2010

more profiling

A passenger whose ticket was paid for in cash in Ghana for a journey starting in Nigeria and ending in the US, who was travelling for two weeks with no checked bags, having visited countries associated with terrorism — let alone his name being known to the authorities — must warrant greater scrutiny; targeting passengers like that has nothing to do with religion or colour of skin. Similarly, we are wasting time and resources by asking a family jetting off to Disneyland to undergo body scans.
We need to move from the current predictable system, which is bogged down by political correctness, and move to an intelligent regime that has risk analysis at its heart.
Via Time

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