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When Should Cops Profile?

Jonathan King
July 29, 2005
The feel good "entirely at random" searches of subway commuters in the Big Apple continue. New York's finest have explained their search protocols to assure the public (and any terrorist paying attention) that police officers were not profiling young men who look like they might hail from the Middle East, North Africa or other hotbeds of Muslim brotherhood in the Third World.

In a democracy as great as ours profiling would only make sense if:

The London bombers fit the profile of the 9/11 hijackers, who could easily have been mistaken for the Madrid bombers, who looked like those in the al-Qaeda cell at Lodi, who fit the profile of the USS Cole attackers, who are dead ringers for the fellows who blew up our embassies in Africa, any one of whom could be confused with the millennium bomber, who matches the profiles of the first World Trade Center bombers, who look just like the Khobar Towers killers, who would be right at home with the terrorists locked up at Gitmo, who have complexions and hair color very similar to the Bali bombers, who ...
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Jonathan King

Jonathan Joseph King is a parole agent with twenty-two years in corrections and a master's degree in criminology. "OSAPian" is his nom de guerre in the blogosphere. King is a ten point vet who retired from the Army National Guard after three post-9/11 overseas missions. Jonathan has no beef with liberal patriots, although he won't vote for any of them, but he despises the radical left and their communion of secular humanism.

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