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Quotes About Profiling

It is time to know more about would-be terrorists, to profile for terrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information.
~ Newt Gingrich
A wealthy, famous, five-foot-six, 140-pound, fifty-eight-year-old white Harvard professor who walked with a cane because of a childhood leg injury would not have been handcuffed and taken down to the station merely for being rude to a cop who'd forced him to produce some form of identification while standing on his own damn property.
~ Barack Obama
By a man's fingernails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the calluses of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuffs, by his movements—by each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent enquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. SHERLOCK HOLMES, 1892
~ Barbara Pease
I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
~ Ernie Harwell
This is senior citizen profiling and I will not put up with it one more minute." A
~ Beverly Jenkins
racial profiling. We all do it. If you cross the street to avoid a gang of black teens, you're racial profiling; if you don't cross because you're afraid you'll look like a racist, you're racial profiling; if you see the gang and think nothing whatsoever, you're from some planet I've never visited.
~ Harlan Coben
If you cross the street to avoid a gang of black teens, you're racial profiling; if you don't cross because you're afraid you'll look like a racist, you're racial profiling; if you see the gang and think nothing whatsoever, you're from some planet I've never visited. What
~ Harlan Coben
I am against discrimination of any kind, but if I make snap judgments, no matter who it's towards, aren't I committing the same sin as someone who profiles?
~ Jay-Z
In a Toyota, the cops don't think about stopping you so much.
~ Chuck Berry
In this day and age, you gotta be a profiler to really know who people are, which most of us are not. So, we need time and life to start happening for people to really show their trust colors.
~ Joe Budden
In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
~ Pat Brown
When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa.
~ Sofia Vergara
When a number of crimes - for instance, burglaries - can be linked to the same offender, police often plot the locations on a map. The art of finding the location of the criminal's home based on the crime sites is a key objective in what is known as geographical profiling.
~ Daniel Goldstein
If we stopped calling it profiling and started calling it proactive intelligence screening or high alert detecting, people would be saying Well, it's about time.
~ Bill Maher
When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it.
~ Aaron Schock
There has been an outpouring of anger and concern because of the actions of George Zimmerman, a private citizen who profiled a young boy and pursued him and tried to confront him, perhaps. But what George Zimmerman did is no different than what police officers do every day as a matter of standard operating procedure.
~ Michelle Alexander
Entonces, las geiko iniciaban su trabajo y recopilaban información acerca de las personas a quienes tendrían que entretener. Si uno de los clientes era un político, la geiko en cuestión estudiaba la legislatura que aquél defendía; si se trataba de una actriz, leía algún artículo sobre ella en una revista; si era un cantante, escuchaba sus discos. O leía su novela. O estudiaba el país de donde procedía
~ Mineko Iwasaki
People want to say there isn't racial profiling at the airport, but let's be honest. If you first name is Mohammed, and your last name isn't Ali, leave a little extra time.
~ Jay Leno
There are designations, like "economist," "prostitute," or "consultant," for which additional characterization doesn't add information.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Someday I'll write a textbook about personality profiling through possessions; but for now let's just say this example is screaming "megalomaniac!" at me.
~ Charles Stross
He looked like an accountant or a serial-killer type. Definitely one of the service industries.
~ Kinky Friedman
when us profilers
~ Val McDermid
The patroller required no reason to stop a person apart from color.
~ Colson Whitehead
Here's something that might not occur to you: If a state trooper sees a weird, patchwork Toyota Echo hurtling down 1-95, and it looks like half of a small country is immigrating to the States in this one little car, you might get stopped.
~ James Patterson