Racial Profiling In Airports
Profiling in Airports: A Tool for Security, not Discrimination.
Profiling has been a method to address security airport’s concerns during the past fifteen years; this method was implemented in order to prevent another tragedy after 9/11. No matter what, safety always comes first, and while it is very understanding why people would not like the government judge them by the way they look, or how they behave, surely everyone appreciates the safety that profiling provides. Nonetheless, this method is not even close to being popular among people, that’s why is essential to understand how it works, which we will discuss later in this essay. We will also talk about what happen to those people that are identified as criminal through profiling, and …show more content…
We will discuss how it works, who should do it, and the trainings that person undergoes through to successfully apply this technique.
Profiling targets people with suspicious behavior; due this characteristic Profiling is often confused with Racial profiling, which is an erroneous term because “Racial profiling is defined as the targeting of citizens based on race, ethnicity, for additional scrutiny by criminal justice officials.” (Gabbidon, Penn, Jordan, & Higgins, 2009). However, “Security it is not about race. It is about behavior that you can see – if somebody is behaving in a nervous manner, or interacting with their surroundings in an unusual way” (Baum, 2016), and that is how profiling really works. The government works very hard to ensure the safety of people in airports and the whole country. To achieve that, they select thrust-worthy people with clean criminal records, and train them to adapt and detect any type of suspicious behavior. But not only that, their training ensures that no Racial Profiling is employed to determine whether a person has bad intentions or not. In fact, John S. Pistole, a TSA Administrator, claims that “Behavioral Detection officers are trained specifically in preventing race, ethnicity, or religious profiling, and in 2012, TSA reviewed and revised all training documents to underscore that unlawful profiling violates agency policy …show more content…
It is used in law enforcement every day, and it should be used in airport security as well as a countermeasure to fight terrorism in airports, nonetheless, it should be used objectively instead of emotionally to avoid offending people.
References
Baum, P. (2016). What can airports do to prevent another Brussels? The Telegraph. From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comment/brussels-attacks-how-to-improve-airport-security//
Editors, T. (2010). Will Profiling Make a Difference? Room for Debate. From http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/will-profiling-make-a-difference/?_r=0
Gabbidon, S., Penn, E., Jordan, K., & Higgins, G. (2008). The Influence of Race/Ethnicity on the Perceived Prevalence and Support for Racial Profiling at Airports. Criminal Justice
Policy Review, 20(3), 344-358. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0887403408327384
Racial Profiling. (2013). National Institute of Justice. Retrieved 9 November 2016, from http://www.nij.gov/topics/law-enforcement/legitimacy/Pages/welcome.aspx
Pistole, J. (2016). TSA Behavior Detection and Analysis Program. Transportation Security Administration, from
Profiling has been a method to address security airport’s concerns during the past fifteen years; this method was implemented in order to prevent another tragedy after 9/11. No matter what, safety always comes first, and while it is very understanding why people would not like the government judge them by the way they look, or how they behave, surely everyone appreciates the safety that profiling provides. Nonetheless, this method is not even close to being popular among people, that’s why is essential to understand how it works, which we will discuss later in this essay. We will also talk about what happen to those people that are identified as criminal through profiling, and …show more content…
We will discuss how it works, who should do it, and the trainings that person undergoes through to successfully apply this technique.
Profiling targets people with suspicious behavior; due this characteristic Profiling is often confused with Racial profiling, which is an erroneous term because “Racial profiling is defined as the targeting of citizens based on race, ethnicity, for additional scrutiny by criminal justice officials.” (Gabbidon, Penn, Jordan, & Higgins, 2009). However, “Security it is not about race. It is about behavior that you can see – if somebody is behaving in a nervous manner, or interacting with their surroundings in an unusual way” (Baum, 2016), and that is how profiling really works. The government works very hard to ensure the safety of people in airports and the whole country. To achieve that, they select thrust-worthy people with clean criminal records, and train them to adapt and detect any type of suspicious behavior. But not only that, their training ensures that no Racial Profiling is employed to determine whether a person has bad intentions or not. In fact, John S. Pistole, a TSA Administrator, claims that “Behavioral Detection officers are trained specifically in preventing race, ethnicity, or religious profiling, and in 2012, TSA reviewed and revised all training documents to underscore that unlawful profiling violates agency policy …show more content…
It is used in law enforcement every day, and it should be used in airport security as well as a countermeasure to fight terrorism in airports, nonetheless, it should be used objectively instead of emotionally to avoid offending people.
References
Baum, P. (2016). What can airports do to prevent another Brussels? The Telegraph. From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comment/brussels-attacks-how-to-improve-airport-security//
Editors, T. (2010). Will Profiling Make a Difference? Room for Debate. From http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/will-profiling-make-a-difference/?_r=0
Gabbidon, S., Penn, E., Jordan, K., & Higgins, G. (2008). The Influence of Race/Ethnicity on the Perceived Prevalence and Support for Racial Profiling at Airports. Criminal Justice
Policy Review, 20(3), 344-358. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0887403408327384
Racial Profiling. (2013). National Institute of Justice. Retrieved 9 November 2016, from http://www.nij.gov/topics/law-enforcement/legitimacy/Pages/welcome.aspx
Pistole, J. (2016). TSA Behavior Detection and Analysis Program. Transportation Security Administration, from