It’s not as simple as it seems, and then again, it is. The right way to profile.
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It’s not as simple as it seems, and then again, it is. The right way to profile.
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When I flew to Europe a lot in the early part of the decade there was an interview at Schipol airport before you were allowed on the plane. If you did not give the right answers you got to have a lot longer interview!
It was not profiling, but it was thorough.
At the Dublin airport I really got the third degree, more than at any other airport in the world. I thought about it afterward and realized that I fit their profile!
The American way of doing this is to rely on technology, which can always fail.
the passenger who pays cash for a one-way ticket at an airline offi ce will be more likely to attract attention than someone who uses a credit card to purchase a return over the internet.
Um. A terrorist buying a one-way ticket ? That would be really dumb now, wouldn’t it.
What a fascinating article! There is nothing like real-life experience to teach one how to do a job properly, eh? I’m also impressed with the lack of grandstanding bullshittery and sensible ruthlessness the Israelis take to the issue. For example this:
Ben Gurion’s critical line of defence consists of polite, highly trained agents, most of them women
But of course. Generally speaking, women are significantly better than men at pattern detection — the “Where’s Waldo?” types of problems where a tiny significant fact or impression has to be culled from a huge mass of noisy nonsense. It’s characteristic of the whatever works philosophy of the Israelis that they simply use this advantage. If you tried it here, you’d have all kinds of hysterical nonsense about stereotypes and rights.