[V_TWIN]

The way I hear it, profiling has kept terrorists from setting foot on an EL AL Airlines flight since the 1960’s...........just sayin.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Walter Williams is a national treasure and an always welcomed breath of fresh air.

[varmintman]

Trayvon Martin was profiling HIMSELF by doing some sort of a slow walk, in the rain, while looking at and into houses. Normal people try to get out of rain as quickly as possible.

[New Jersey Realist]

Profiling is an essential element in law enforcement.

[yldstrk]

I think profiling makes a lot of sense. You may occasionally miss the terrorist who dresses like a socialite, but it will be occasional.

[paterfamilias]

This article should be required reading for all the morons who run our government.

Thank you, Prof. Williams, for stating the obvious in terms that even a politician can understand.

[SampleMan]

Past experience and observed normalcy is what allows us to operate throughout each day. We presume that light switches are up for on, yet we also know that a few light switches are 3-ways and may be up or down for on. We proceed with the expected, being correct almost always, yet we have the logic to adapt to the exception. Profiling is the same way.

People that don’t want to be profiled as thugs shouldn’t dress and act like thugs.

[bert]

Good try but still not on target.

To reach a conclusion, one must sort through facts, make choices of available info. That is given a series of facts, one must discriminate between them to determine if acceptable or non acceptable, pertinent or not pertinent.

Black people hate discrimination as a process because it can make them come up short in the decision tree. Then it does the most unacceptable of all. It destroys the assumption that all blacks are equal. Discrimination allows treating a person with a hoodie differently from one not wearing a hoodie. It allows one to distinguish between a male with his underwear showing above a belt fastened below his genitals with a person fastening his belt around his waist.

Blacks wail and moan about discrimination because and only because, the process allows elimination that results is selection of a likely criminal and that criminal happens to be black.

Profiling is discrimination in a decision tree that is ordinary and necessary, especially when narrowing down the list of suspects.

[wku man]

Ask the victims of the knockout game if they wish they'd profiled the gangs of thugs approaching them just before they got beaten into unconsciousness. I'd bet a month's pay they'd say yes.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Dr. Pritchett]

Love me some Walt Williams!

[Gay State Conservative]

When my Dad was alive I used to take him down to Florida in January for some sunshine.He was in his 80's and basically confined to a wheelchair back then.At the airport,when I was pushing him through check-in and security the TSA would focus on that man...white haired,wheelchair bound.They did it every time.And when his artificial hip set off the metal detectors they'd spend even more time on him despite being told by me "he has a metal hip".

That's just a small example of how far this country has sunk into the abyss of "political correctness".

[Flintlock]

“Profiling”=Using your common sense.

CAN’T HAVE THAT, NOW—CAN WE??

[odawg]

Profiling is part and parcel of human nature. It is necessary for survival. Single women use it when dating and a father will use it when a male wants to date his daughter. Bankers use it when granting loans and employers use it when hiring. The examples can go on forever. Liberals don’t like it because it upsets their delusional world.