" I was listening to NPR this morning and NPR correspondent Deborah Amos sounded oh-so-enthusiastic about racial profiling.
Here is the description of the interview at . The transcript isn't yet up, but the audio is.
Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel has a reputation for excellent security. Rafi Ron was the airport's chief of security but since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he's been a consultant to Logan International Airport in Boston. Ron talks to Deborah Amos about whether Israel uses racial profiling to screen passengers — a practice that's generally off limits to federal law enforcement in the United States. I typed out the bit in the interview that made me jerk my head up a little (not too much as nothing surprises me):Rafi Ron: "It is not racial profiling. It is profiling that takes into consideration where somebody comes from. If somebody's home address is Gaza we should be paying more attention to details compared to, for example, a Holocaust survivor from Tel Aviv."
NPR's Deborah Amos: "So you are looking where someone has been."Rafi Ron: "Correct."So Rafi Ron basically says we profile based on where someone is from and Deborah Amos decides to make that sound nicer by saying it's based on where someone has been."
