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Moose didn't do the profiling. The FBI did. In fact, they have a number of profilers on staff and train other profilers. They even made a movie about it ("Silence of the Lambs," remember?). They got it wrong. The "racial" profiling is actually the profilers playing the percentages--there are more white serial killers than black serial killers. But it's simpler and easier to blame Moose for the inaccurate profiling than on the FBI, because he was out front and the FBI was in the background.

>>>The "racial" profiling is actually the profilers playing the percentages--there are more white serial killers than black serial killers. But it's simpler and easier to blame Moose for the inaccurate profiling than on the FBI<<<

A main point of the article seems to be, though, that Moose didn't adequately consider new leads and modify the profiling accordingly. His documented (and reprimanded) racial hostilities may have been the cause.

The "racial" profiling is actually the profilers playing the percentages--there are more white serial killers than black serial killers.

Of course, the same "logic" is behind profiling of blacks - that more blacks, statistically, are criminals than whites. That's wrong, because cops waste time on innocent blacks instead of looking for probable cause - just as they did the same with whites in the sniper case. Profiling should be a single tool, not the driving force.

But it's simpler and easier to blame Moose for the inaccurate profiling than on the FBI, because he was out front and the FBI was in the background.

Moose apparently was more-than reciptive to what the FBI was telling him.

But it's simpler and easier to blame Moose for the inaccurate profiling than on the FBI, because he was out front and the FBI was in the background.

I believe it was a combination deal. Remember, though, that there was never an official FBI "profile" issued for the sniper, but Moose promised one to the media on Friday, Oct. 4, then had to announce later in the day that the FBI had determined there was "not enough information" for a profile. That would indicate that the FBI, at least, did not want to commit themselves publicly to the standard "angry white guy" profile. I would also speculate that Moose might have been left in charge of the investigation (even though, at one point, there were more killings outside his jurisdiction than there were in it), because the Feds had a suspicion that the killer might be non-white, and, considering Moose's well-publicized history, he couldn't possibly be perceived as prejudiced against minorities, if push came to shove, whereas the FBI might catch hell in the media for even speculating in that direction, down the road.

As far as statistical probabilities, if white serial killers are counted in relation to the percentage of whites in the population, there is a lower percentage of white serial killers than there are whites.

But let's not descend to racial squabbling on these points. The truth of the matter, as we have entered the most perilous time in our history, is that political correctness kills -- and if we as a people don't get past it soon, if we don't stop letting fear of "racism" blind us to who a terrorist or a terrorist group might be, we put all Americans, no matter what their skin color, in deep peril. That is why the Islamists among us are so strident with the use of the term "racism" -- using it as a shield while they plot our destruction. For the sake of our own survival, we need to get over it.