I’m sure the family of the Brazilian man in London that was profiled, followed, and blown away would appreciate the sentiment of this man.
Assemblyman Calls For NYPD To Use Profiling In War Against Terror
August 01, 2005
A state lawmaker is asking local law enforcement officials to put aside concerns about political correctness and use ethnic profiling in their fight against terrorism.
Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind is urging the New York Police Department to use terrorist profiling when it conducts subway bag searches.
Hikind says that purely random bag checks leave the city’s transit system “outrageously vulnerable.”
“I’m not talking about (profiling) one particular group,” Hikind told reporters after releasing a statement on the subject Sunday. “I’m talking about whatever we do today to protect citizens against terrorism, whatever that is, we should do what we need to do without feeling a constraint that someone is going to get up and yell racism.”
In a printed statement, Hikind said that “there is a terrorist profile for a potential suicide bomber, and it’s not the 75-year-old grandmother, with sloping shoulders, who has an oversized tote bag firmly tucked under her arm. Randomly checking her bag may be politically correct, but it doesn’t cut it when we’re trying to protect millions of mass transit riders.”
“We have to give the NYPD every single tool in the war on terrorism,” Hikind added. “It’s a fact of life that the London suicide bombers on July 7th and July 21st fit a very precise intelligence profile.”
Authorities believe Islamic extremists were responsible for both London terror attacks this month, as was the case in the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
In response, the NYPD has released a statement saying: “Racial profiling is illegal, of doubtful effectiveness, and against department policy.”
August 1st, 2005 at 2:38 pm
Right. Go with what this guy says and we’ll have a rash of grandmas dropping C4 out of their bloomers.