The consideration of race or ethnicity is hardly new in terrorist or
criminal profiling. To thwart the Italian mafia, law enforcement
investigated Italian males. To stop a Jamaican drug posse, look for
Jamaicans. And to stop the Irish Republican Army, find the white guys with
brogues. In each of these examples, race and ethnicity are critically
important. However, none of them really constitute `racial' profiling.
Instead, these examples reflect `criminal' or `terrorist'
profiling. -- Mark W. Smith
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