Who Are You?

Profiling is a very big issue worldwide nowadays. The war against profiling is the reason that 80 year old grandmas from the suburbs of Akron, Ohio are padded down for pipe bombs before they get on a plane. They don't do this because they are afraid that these octogenarians are any threat to the world's security. They are subjected to indignity of a security check that is on par with a colonic because it would be unfair to inspect somebody who fits the stereotype, and let the harmless senior citizen walk on the plane unchecked. The fact that nobody wants to talk about is that profiling works. It works in security, it works in law enforcement, and it works at the poker table.