Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Common Interests NYC Officials Call for Racial Profiling

agreed, from a security stand point profiling does work. don't bother debating it.
-and just what are we profiling you ask? muslims. they are by far most likely to to try attack the west in a terrorist manor today.
-what do most (but not all, we know that) muslims look like? mostly dark skinned although not dark enough to be considered black. most of them are middle eastern in origin although they may not live there or have been born there.
-do they generally resemble any other groups? hispanics a little, assuming you don't know what a hispanic/latino/chicano person looks like.
-does this mean that we should ignore anyone who doesn't fit this mold? no
-should we ignore muslims in the interest of not offending people. no
-should we stop all muslims because they fit this mold. no

well gee gosh and golly darn. a little bit of simple reasoning and there we have it. an accurate basic profile of who is most likely to be an fundamental islamic terrorist.

personal real world example:
about a year ago i was stopped, searched via the "pat down", grilled by four sapd cops with another in the whirly bird floating above and (with my permission) my car was searched at 1:30 in the morning because i didn't look like i belonged in that part of town at that hour. the exact statement was, "you don't look like you belong here." admittedly i was fussing with my headlights while driving through the residential area surrounding my apartment so i was attracting attention to myself and deserved the attention i received. after about twenty minutes of proving we were positioned just below my apartment i was released with the only real consequence being my large size number 4 from carls jr was then cold. moral, in the interest of protecting the community at large i was detained and released shortly thereafter. for their trouble i thanked the officers for trying to protect the community at large even though i was inconvienenced. so yes, even when i am negatively effected i support profiling.