Well I am not arguing one way or another pro or against profiling. All I am saying is that profiling skews the statistics that so many point to as evidence of higher rates of "black criminality". You just can't accept the numbers about the high rates of black arrests/etc., without considering how profiling makes those %'s appear. My white 80 year old grandmother flys quite a bit, and she always gets searched and questioned because her replaced knee sets off the metal detectors. Maybe we should consider profiling when it makes sense. In the case of criminal profiling in the larger world, it makes no sense to fixate on one racial group when we know all racial groups are committing crimes (most likely at similar rates based on their socio-economic class, etc) I mean, isn't the TSA screening a joke, anyways? They don't really pay that much attention to whats in checked luggage and pulling out random old ladies makes no sense... But pulling random middle easterners out isn't helpful either because its inefficient - there are tons of middle eastern people, but only a certain type is the problem. An another thing, we have had terrorist problems with non-middle eastern people just about as often as often trying to blow up planes. Usually they are young men. Maybe profiling young men would make more sense.
Old ladies and old men can carry bombs too,..
I'm very thankful that they pull your grandmother out of line and check her when the metal detectors go off.
They are just doing their job and i'm THANKFUL for it.
As for racial/criminal profiling,.. i think it has its purpose,..