Accession Number:

AD1112427

Title:

Homeland Security: Profiling

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Research Paper]

Corporate Author:

ARMY SERGEANTS MAJOR ACADEMY FORT BLISS TX

Personal Author(s):

• Johnson, Alan G.

Report Date:

2005-10-01

Pagination or Media Count:

13

Abstract:

In the world of political correctness, civil liberties and the global threat of terror attacks, our society has become to a divided on the subject of profiling. Although many corporations, individuals and scientific groups, use profiling, it is the subject of racial profiling that is at the forefront of the civil liberties debate. The University Of Texas defines profiling in many different categories of interest, in particular is this definition A technique whereby a set of characteristics of a particular class of person is inferred from past experience, and data-holdings are then searched for individuals with a close fit to that set of characteristics EBT Glossary. The question is, should racial, ethnic, or nationality based profiling systems be used by our Department of Homeland Security even to defend our national interest

Descriptors:

• terrorists
• homeland security
• business administration
• civil rights
• man borne improvised explosive devices
• security
• united kingdom
• reasoning
• ethnic groups
• explosives
• public policy
• societies
• special forces
• terrorism
• explosions
• high explosives
• law enforcement
• new york
• violence
• commerce

Subject Categories:

• Civil Defense
• Sociology and Law

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]