Face Value: Does Profiling Actually Help to Catch Terrorists?

Monday, February 2, 2009 - 19:21 in Mathematics & Economics

Profiling is a hot-button issue--civil liberties groups maintain that making assumptions based on race, nationality or ethnicity is unacceptably discriminatory, whereas some prominent conservatives argue that the method is an effective means to combat crime and terrorism, and therefore worth the social cost. [More]

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