@NiallOfficial I appreciate your statistics, and I'd like to respond to one part of your post where you link two articles about
the TSA never having had any success using racial profiling. I obviously don't support giving "random" searches to a certain race more frequently, but why can we not use race as a factor like Israel has, where they've actually stopped terrorist attacks, and haven't had a single one in over 4 decades?
@Question I'm offended because you are trying to claim I don't have morals when, in reality, they just don't exactly 1 to 1 match up with yours. The whole point is that I don't care if someone feels bad, if they
had morals they'd understand that they're being selected for interrogation because a
trained officer thought they met the threshold of suspicion. Yes, the threshold will have to be such to include many false positives to catch terrorists, but any
moral human should understand that if they are caught as a false positive it is beneficial to all because it means that someone who was more suspicious than them (i.e. actually committing a crime) would be caught as well.
Honestly, the problem in America now (having Trump and Hillary as nominees) is because
people vote and act based on emotion, and care too much about what other people think. Look, I couldn't care less if someone gets offended because they were told to get to the airport 2 hours early, they get there one hour early, miss their flight due to security lines.
But, under a profiling system (whether it includes race or not), wait times would be
decreased for 95% or more of innocent travelers. Oh yeah, and safety would be increased.
Minorities also find it hard to pay for 8 years of college, then onwards through residency, etc. to become a MD in the US. But I don't see people going around claiming we should lower the number of years they'll have to go to school simply because it may adversely affect some of them. Why? Because
it's the only logical thing to make our doctors have a good education. Likewise, in my opinion, it's the only logical solution to, when there is a case study that has gone on for over 5 decades now with this much success, adopt an Israeli style approach to security. Again, I couldn't care less that you, who has not ever been through the system I am advocating, think it would hurt your feelings.
I guess it's also discriminatory to require a form of state issued ID to board a plane. Or to require a passport to leave the country. Or require a social security number to work in the US. Or to prohibit non-citizens from voting. Heck, while we're at it why don't we just give everyone the keys to a nuclear weapon and say "hey fire this it's legal for you to do it". This isn't the freaking purge. It's such a slippery slope to give a flying hoot about someone's feelings at the expense of
proven safety, efficacy, and apprehension of criminals. But go ahead, vote based on emotions. I sincerely hope you aren't anywhere near the next major terrorist attack happens in the country, as then you can continue to not have any idea of what people who are affected by them go through, or how they could have been prevented.