The New York Times > Week in Review > Fear Factor: In an Age of Terror, Safety Is Relative:
Continue profiling people and doing random checks. Profiling works as a legitimate tool of law enforcement. Keep doing it, security people.
"Maybe there's a way to avoid subway passenger screening. Starting in July, Boston transit police will hand-search the packages of travelers on the storied T subway system. Riders will continue to board unscreened. Officers, some with explosives-sniffing dogs, will wander through cars and demand that passengers open packages, briefcases or backpacks. Already there is an excruciating legal dispute about whether the officers should be scanning for those who fit terrorist profiles, or making random searches: that is, ordering grandma to show what's in her purse while ignoring the Middle Eastern-looking young man with the backpack."
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