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Columbia Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 5 (Jun., 2002), pp. 1413-1438. Opposing Viewpoints In Context - Document. As you read, consider the following questions: As stated by Horowitz, what has eroded national identity and security? How does Horowitz use the example of Muhammad al-Qahtani to support his argument for profiling Muslims in the United States? How does the author describe "fourth-generation warfare"? Good evening. I'd like to thank the Robert A. Profiling: Workable and Necessary National identity and security now more than ever go together. Now unlike certain misguided "patriots," I regard as poisonous the psychology of Battered American Syndrome.

It is true that most Muslims living in this country, not to mention those who plan to come, are not terrorists by any stretch. That leads to a governing principle. Defense is simply the stronger form of war, the one that makes the enemy's defeat more certain ... Profiling Based on a Statistical Fact Consider the following scenario: I am an airport security inspector. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with profiling. Yet the [George W.] Point: Racial Profiling is a Valid and Effective Law Enforcement Practice. Points of View Reference Center Home. Ex-TSA Chief Calls Airport Security Screenings 90 Percent "Clutter" Points of View Reference Center Home: Interview: James Zogby discusses the balance between civil liberties and se.

To Profile or Not to Profile? A Debate between Sam Harris and Bruce Schneier Sam Harris's BlogMay 25, 2012 Introduction by Sam Harris I recently wrote two articles in defense of "profiling" in the context of airline security (1 & 2), arguing that the TSA should stop doing secondary screenings of people who stand no reasonable chance of being Muslim jihadists. I knew this proposal would be controversial, but I seriously underestimated how inflamed the response would be.

Had I worked for a newspaper or a university, I could well have lost my job over it. One thing that united many of my critics was their admiration for Bruce Schneier. This debate was conducted entirely by email, without a moderator. SH: First, let me say how much I appreciate your willingness to engage on this issue, Bruce. There are many things in your essay that I'd like to respond to, but I don't want us to just hurl op-eds at each other.

So, to begin, I just want us to agree about this initial focus. BS: High. But so what? Mandatory Class for Airport Officers Accused of Profiling. – USATODAY.com. Shoshana Hebshi was as scared as everybody else aboard Frontier Flight 623 Sunday afternoon. The plane carried 116 passengers en route to Detroit from Denver. Two F-16 fighter jets escorted the plane to the ground. The plane taxied to a remote area of the airport. Hebshi, 35, an Iowa State University alumna, began to worry. Thus began a nearly four-hour ordeal that would include being handcuffed, denied access to her cellphone, locked in a cell while still bound, and strip-searched in the Detroit airport police station. Hebshi detailed her experiences in a Monday blog post titled "Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit. " As Hebshi sat on the plane, she rethought her decision to fly on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Police cars surrounded the plane. Hebshi wondered whether a fugitive was aboard. Authorities stood her and the two men up, handcuffed them, took them off the plane and put them into a car. Hebshi, her husband, Dr. Racial profiling in airports: not a simple case of black & white | GlobalComment. Posted on Saturday, January 30th, 2010 at 5:07 pm Author: Feature Writer Gc contributor: Hisham Wyne The location is any international airport in 2010. The scene is one of controlled chaos. People are pushed, prodded, searched, questioned and scanned. Row upon row of irritated passengers interact sullenly with overworked security personnel. You straighten your shoulders, hoist your backpack and walk straight through.

This is probably because your name is John Smith, or some other benign Anglo Saxon moniker. Racial profiling has been openly acknowledged as the new approach in the fight to keep airlines safe. But what of it? Ethically, racial profiling may seem wrong. Unfortunately, I am caught firmly on the wrong side of this divide. A word, however, to the contrary. Those interested in causing mayhem by killing airline passengers midair will realize this better than anyone. Be Sociable, Share! Points of View Reference Center Home: Challenge: Airport Screening Without Discrimination. The Reality of Racial Profiling. Should Airports Use Racial And Religious Profiling? Hide captionModerator John Donvan addresses the team arguing against the motion "U.S. Airports Should Use Racial and Religious Profiling" in an Oxford-style debate on Nov. 22 at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

Seated are (from left) Hassan Abbas, Debra Burlingame and Michael Chertoff. Chris Vultaggio The recent furor over screenings and pat-downs has catapulted airport security back into the spotlight. Some advocate the use of racial and religious profiling — specifically, looking for young fundamentalist Muslim males who come from the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. A group of six experts recently took on the subject of profiling at an Intelligence Squared U.S. event.

Intelligence Squared U.S. is taking a new approach for its spring season of debates. Before the debate, the audience at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts voted 37 percent in favor of the motion and 33 percent against, with 30 percent undecided. Asra Q. Racial Profiling at Boston Airport, Officials Say.

Racial Profiling at Logan Airport Undermines Security and Freedom. Originally posted on Boston.com Reports that the so-called "behavioral detection program" at Logan Airport leads to racial profiling is front-page news in today's Sunday New York Times. You have to admire the courage of the TSA screeners who raised the alarm that pressure from TSA management to meet quotas leads to targeting of passengers based on their race, ethnicity, and religion-- even when they clearly pose no terrorist threat. Programs based on behavioral assessment have never been shown to keep us safe or to stop terrorists. In fact, a recent investigation by the General Accounting Office suggests that the program was adopted despite having no scientific basis.

That, when combined with pressure on TSA screeners to meet artificial quotas for reporting "suspicious" behaviors, clearly results in pressure on TSA screeners to profile people based on the way they look -- rather than how they act. Even TSA executive director David S. All Americans want to fly safely. T.S.A. Experiments With Behavior Screening. The agency already makes some exceptions, including allowing some frequent travelers who have passed background checks to move more quickly through security — an E-ZPass, of sorts, called PreCheck for passengers traveling in the United States.

Now, the agency is testing a new behavior detection program where officers use on-the-spot observations and conversations with passengers to select some for the quicker pass through the checkpoint. The program, which the T.S.A. calls “managed inclusion,” is being tested at airports in Indianapolis and Tampa, Fla. If the tests are successful, the agency plans to expand the program to more airports this year. The idea is to selectively identify certain passengers who appear to pose no threat and invite them to use lanes dedicated to the PreCheck program that the agency began in October 2011.

For several years, the T.S.A. has been looking for alternative screening methods to address public dissatisfaction with the current system. Junk Security: 'Naked Scanners' Won't Keep Us Safe [Updated] | Danger Room. In May, Transportation Security Administration screener Rolando Negrin pummeled a co-worker with his government-issued baton. The feud began, according to a Miami-Dade Police Department report, after Mr. Negrin’s training session with one of the agency’s whole-body imagers. The scan “revealed [Mr.

Negrin] had a small penis,” the disgruntled co-worker told police. Now the TSA is rolling out these ultra-revealing imagers across the country in an attempt to uncover hidden threats like the so-called underwear bomb found on a Detroit-bound flight last Christmas. The agency and the scanners’ manufacturers insist they’ve installed features and instituted procedures that will make passenger embarrassments impossible. Even the most modest of us would probably agree to a brief flash of quasi-nudity if it would really ensure a safe flight. Which, of course, they invariably do. My article in today’s Wall Street Journal has more detail on the scanners in use and the details they reveal. Photo: TSA. Naked-Image Scanners to Be Removed From U.S. Airports.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will remove airport body scanners that privacy advocates likened to strip searches after OSI Systems Inc. (OSIS) couldn’t write software to make passenger images less revealing. TSA will end a $5 million contract with OSI’s Rapiscan unit for the software after Administrator John Pistole concluded the company couldn’t meet a congressional deadline to produce generic passenger images, agency officials said in interviews. The agency removed 76 of the machines from busier U.S. airports last year.

It will now get rid of the remaining 174 Rapiscan machines, with the company absorbing the cost, said Karen Shelton Waters, the agency’s assistant administrator for acquisitions. The TSA will use 60 machines manufactured by L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. (LLL), the agency’s other supplier of body scanners, and will move some scanners to busier airports to reduce waiting times. OSI Systems rose $2.37, or 3.5 percent, to $70.02 in Nasdaq trading. Close. [2010] 'Are Any Parts of Your Body Sore?' Asks the Man From TSA - Jeffrey Goldberg - National. Reagan National, 6:40 a.m. today. I opt-out of the humiliating back-scatter machine and ask for a pat-down. Once again, the TSA officers eye me suspiciously. "Wait here," one says. I wait, and wait some more. Eventually, I'm called over for my pat-down. "The guidelines have changed, just to warn you. "Resistance. "Are any parts of your body sore?

" "No," I say, instantly regretting that I didn't say, "Yes. He feels me up. "Hey, I'm not in the United States Senate! " His search is fairly half-hearted. I ask, "Do a lot of people opt-out? " "No, not many. " "People are cows," I say. "What do you mean? " "I mean they'll do whatever the federal government tells them to do," I say. "How come you don't go through the machine? " "Okay," he says, "have a nice flight. " [2010] American Airlines Pilots in Revolt Against the TSA - Jeffrey Goldberg - National.

This is a letter from Captain Dave Bates, the president of the Allied Pilots Association, which represents 11,000 American Airlines pilots, to his members, in which he calls on pilots to refuse back-scatter screening and demand private pat-downs from TSA officers. Bates's argument is multifaceted and extremely cogent. He worries about increased exposure to radiation, of course (a big worry among commercial pilots) and he is eloquent on the subject of intentional humiliation: There is absolutely no denying that the enhanced pat-down is a demeaning experience. In my view, it is unacceptable to submit to one in public while wearing the uniform of a professional airline pilot. I recommend that all pilots insist that such screening is performed in an out-of-view area to protect their privacy and dignity. Read the whole thing: U.S. Airports a "Constitutional Twilight Zone" In this Dec. 30, 2009 file photo, Tanner Suttles, left, a Transportation Security Administration employee is screened by a TSA officer during a demonstration of passenger screening technology at the TSA Systems Integration Facility in Arlington, Va.

(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari This article was written by attorney and "CBS Evening News" researcher Paula Reid Much of the opposition to airport body scanners invokes the Constitution; one company is even selling pasties emblazoned with the Fourth Amendment to protect passengers' dignity while passing through scanners. But the Fourth Amendment, along with most of the Constitution, does not apply in the airport the same way it does in most public spaces. Federal law requires commercial airline passengers to be searched prior to boarding a plane and airlines cannot transport any passenger who refuses (49 U.S.C. § 44902).