[dead]

So much for profiling "Arab looking" types...

No. Still plenty effective.

More than nine out of ten terrorists are “Arab looking” young males.

We don’t need to ignore “the rule” to try to catch “the exception.”

[E Rocc]

So much for profiling "Arab looking" types... No. Still plenty effective.

More than nine out of ten terrorists are “Arab looking” young males.

We don’t need to ignore “the rule” to try to catch “the exception.”

Profiling "Arab looking types" simply means the smart and resourceful terrorists (in other words, the dangerous ones) will use people who don't fit the ethnic profile. It's not only wrong, it's dangerous.

-Eric

[Dales]

Certainly. We should expect more of the rule and expect the exceptions to be a lot less frequent, and we should allocate our resources accordingly.

But we should not just allocate resources for the rule and ignore the exceptions, because then this is where our enemy would decide to target us. They probably still will, eventually, since the chance of detection is less. But not as long as they think they can just use who they've mostly got now.

We can slow them down a ton, just by focusing on the rule, and hope we can use the time to wipe them out. But it is very risky if we completely ignore the exceptions.