Do you have to commit a crime/attract the attention of authorities first,or do they do profiling "just to see" if there's anything funny about you?
2006-08-24 07:37:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Normal policing, except that here it is politically sensitive and subject to political correctness.
If the police know that the potential offender is a man they don't look at women.
True, it's not nice to be singling out Muslims or bearded ones for secondary inspection. But it does save police time and tax money.
Society has to decide if it can afford strip-searching Christian grey old ladies in order to make Muslim bearded young men feel better when they too are strip-searched.
2006-08-24 07:53:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Offender profiling is a method of identifying the perpetrator of a crime based on an analysis of the nature of the offense and the manner in which it was committed. Various aspects of the criminal's personality makeup are determined from his or her choices before, during, and after the crime. This information is combined with other relevant details and physical evidence, and then compared with the characteristics of known personality types and mental abnormalities to develop a practical working description of the offender.
2006-08-24 14:47:00 · answer #2 · answered by lisa m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read an article on this the other day and it said that offender profiling at airports would consist of looking for people who were sweating and had their fists clenched as they were likely to be terrorists. Well i spent three hours at luton the other day trying to get on a flight and by the end of that i was sweating and my fists were clenched so i guess in the future i'll be getting locked up regular. Load of bloody nonsense.
2006-08-27 19:39:51 · answer #3 · answered by the little ninja 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. An offender profile is normally given to the judge (esp. in juvenile cases or non-felony cases) to inform him/her of the offender's background. They don't do it on spec because they're too overloaded with real cases to go prospecting for others...
2006-08-24 14:43:35 · answer #4 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
profilling is more for possible law breakers more than offenders,
it is used in israel for example in there airports, if you are asian,single,minimal luggage anda bushy beard you will be stopped and very heavily checked for anything unusual,,
if you are white,scottish with a kilt on you will get vip treatment and free whiskey
thats profilling
2006-08-24 14:57:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm neither christian, greyhaired or old, but sure that whatever inconvenience people go through it can't be worse than some of the experiences of westerners in the far east, middle east and aftrica.
2006-08-24 16:04:31 · answer #6 · answered by Calamity Jane 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you dont have to commit a crime you could be a friend of a known offender or just hang out in certain places or you could just be black
2006-08-24 14:44:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i would have thought everyone was familiar with the word since the scare at airports the word is used constantly, its simply if security is suspicious then your ready for a rub down
2006-08-26 13:29:24 · answer #8 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Circumstances? None now...but then again, for certain groups of people it was never so.
2006-08-24 14:48:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont do that although i was offered a position a while back
2006-08-24 14:39:17 · answer #10 · answered by darkangel1111 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋