Ethnic vs Behavioral Profiling Rough Draft
On September 11th, the President proclaimed that the security of the airline industry needs to be augmented and all security efforts need to be accelerated. He invoked the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Office of Transportation, Central Intelligence Agency, and other federal organizations to oversee this operation. Surprisingly, this speech was given thirty years prior to 9/11 by then President Richard Nixon. His speech was given in response to reports he’d received about lax airport security.
Regardless of what was done between 1969 and 1974 to increase airline security under Nixon, the incident known as 911 which took place on September 1, 2001 where terrorist planes flew into the World Trade …show more content…
People profile cellphones, instruments, sports, and one another. Animals profile all the time to survive. (Tuner, Allen) That is what the government is trying to do: survive in an era where terrorism is a daily threat to our citizens and our society. Yet profiling hints at a deeper issue than just making a judgement call based on skin color or appearance. It hints at mystery and the unknown. Profiling is technically defined as “the recording and analysis of a person's psychological and behavioral characteristics, so as to assess or predict their capabilities in a certain sphere or to assist in identifying a particular subgroup of people” (Oxford Dictionaries). Profiling is namely a generic term, so experts have broken it up into several categories. These include: victimal, psychological, criminal, ethnic, predictive, and behavioral profiling. All of these types of profiling are used for different situations, but ethnic profiling is the most abstract, misused, and argued about.
While some people believe that ethnic profiling raises significant uses with regard to individual freedoms and racism; behavioral profiling relies on evidential experience that proves right most of the time. Behavioral profiling can save time and money for the airline business and for innocent customers because it is based off of evidential experience that has been proven reliable. Security guards can therefore be trained to be sensitively observant of abnormal …show more content…
Security enforcement agencies, therefore, have taken exceeding measures to adjust and prepare for terrorist attacks. This is especially true in the airline industry. Travelers now have to arrive at the airport two hours earlier than they did before 9/11. There are restrictions on luggage and bags, and random passengers are selected for intense screening for security provisions (Wood, Jennie). A recent checkpoint for security, called the Advanced Imaging Technology, was installed almost ten years after 9/11. This is a full-body scanner that can check if potentially dangerous objects are on a person without removing clothes or touching them. The court case of Katz vs. U.S. was an enormous development in the argument of physical intrusion constituting a search, making security administrators less concerned about discrimination and their jobs. (Ron, Rafi) As a matter of fact, the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration have installed intense security checks to preserve people at all airports. Are these checkpoints necessary? Absolutely. These government agencies are responsible for protecting the citizens of America, so if there are any evil forces at work, it is absolutely the duty of these forces to take preventative action. Indeed, there is some dispute whether security officers are capable of profiling without
On September 11th, the President proclaimed that the security of the airline industry needs to be augmented and all security efforts need to be accelerated. He invoked the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Office of Transportation, Central Intelligence Agency, and other federal organizations to oversee this operation. Surprisingly, this speech was given thirty years prior to 9/11 by then President Richard Nixon. His speech was given in response to reports he’d received about lax airport security.
Regardless of what was done between 1969 and 1974 to increase airline security under Nixon, the incident known as 911 which took place on September 1, 2001 where terrorist planes flew into the World Trade …show more content…
People profile cellphones, instruments, sports, and one another. Animals profile all the time to survive. (Tuner, Allen) That is what the government is trying to do: survive in an era where terrorism is a daily threat to our citizens and our society. Yet profiling hints at a deeper issue than just making a judgement call based on skin color or appearance. It hints at mystery and the unknown. Profiling is technically defined as “the recording and analysis of a person's psychological and behavioral characteristics, so as to assess or predict their capabilities in a certain sphere or to assist in identifying a particular subgroup of people” (Oxford Dictionaries). Profiling is namely a generic term, so experts have broken it up into several categories. These include: victimal, psychological, criminal, ethnic, predictive, and behavioral profiling. All of these types of profiling are used for different situations, but ethnic profiling is the most abstract, misused, and argued about.
While some people believe that ethnic profiling raises significant uses with regard to individual freedoms and racism; behavioral profiling relies on evidential experience that proves right most of the time. Behavioral profiling can save time and money for the airline business and for innocent customers because it is based off of evidential experience that has been proven reliable. Security guards can therefore be trained to be sensitively observant of abnormal …show more content…
Security enforcement agencies, therefore, have taken exceeding measures to adjust and prepare for terrorist attacks. This is especially true in the airline industry. Travelers now have to arrive at the airport two hours earlier than they did before 9/11. There are restrictions on luggage and bags, and random passengers are selected for intense screening for security provisions (Wood, Jennie). A recent checkpoint for security, called the Advanced Imaging Technology, was installed almost ten years after 9/11. This is a full-body scanner that can check if potentially dangerous objects are on a person without removing clothes or touching them. The court case of Katz vs. U.S. was an enormous development in the argument of physical intrusion constituting a search, making security administrators less concerned about discrimination and their jobs. (Ron, Rafi) As a matter of fact, the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration have installed intense security checks to preserve people at all airports. Are these checkpoints necessary? Absolutely. These government agencies are responsible for protecting the citizens of America, so if there are any evil forces at work, it is absolutely the duty of these forces to take preventative action. Indeed, there is some dispute whether security officers are capable of profiling without