RCP: Skip the Grannies: The Case for Airport Profiling RCP: Skip the Grannies: The Case for Airport Profiling

RCP article: Skip the Grannies: The Case for Airport Profiling:

Five years removed from 9/11, it's time to admit that profiling is not a dirty word.

Profiling is street smarts by any other name. It's the common-sensical recognition that while America is not threatened by an entire community, she is under siege by a certain element of an identifiable group, and law enforcement needs to target its resources accordingly.

The failure to profile is a dereliction of duty on the part of an administration that has otherwise been willing to incur the wrath of civil libertarians as it aggressively fights the war on terror.