Security Teams Practice Behavior Analysis

Recently, the government has been training security screeners in airports and other areas of mass transit to "weed out" possible terrorists based on patterns in their behavior and facial expressions. Since January of 2006, these specialized screeners have referred about 40,000 different travelers, with about 300 of them being arrested for carrying concealed weapons and drug trafficking. At first glance, this statistic may not seem like a big deal...almost a waste of time. But if you really look at the numbers, that's almost 300 possible terrorist attacks that have been stopped by the screeners. Civil Libertarians and Democrats are saying that these new techniques violate personal privacy and facilitate racial profiling. I may be wrong on this, but I think that if most people were asked, they would sacrifice a little bit of privacy to ensure that they would be safe in their travels. And on the issue of racial profiling, I personally would say "get over it". It's a fact of life that people will be more suspicious about people that are different and look like they "don't belong" in that area. This is true of any country in the world, probably moreso than the United States. People should be a little more understandingof the fact that security is there for our protection. If a black, asian, hispanic, or muslim person wants to screen me because I look suspicious to them, that's fine. I would rather sacrifice the rights of the few for the protection of the many.