Mathematical model suggests limited profiling may be effective in airport screening

02/20/09:  The New York Times reports that a statistical model for examining rare events suggests that some limited profiling by ethnicity or nationality is useful in apprehending terrorists, but too great a dependence on profiling passengers is ineffective.  According to the model, if terrorists are 100 times as prevalent in the target population, it is most effective to screen members of that population 10 times as frequently.

8/23/08: Scholarship: Daphne Barak-Erez, "Terrorism and Profiling: Shifting the Focus From Criteria to Effects", Cardozo Law Review, 2007.

07/08/08: Jeff Stein and Security Debrief discuss a Detroit Free Press article on new FBI "ethnic profiling" measures in the works for the domestic counterterrorism program.

Thread: Ethnic profiling in counterterrorism