Quotes About Profiling

#1. Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full."

Robin Williams

#2. I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and too opinionated to become a good terrorist.

Loretta Napoleoni

#3. In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.

Peter Breggin

#4. I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.

Eric Holder

#5. 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

#6. I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone knows that monopoly power is bad for markets, that people are racially biased and that illness is unequally distributed by social class.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#7. We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling.

John Pistole

#8. Nobody believes in racial profiling until they get a red-haired sushi chef with a southern accent.

Jim Gaffigan

#9. 'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

Laila Ali

#10. I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling - a fascinating book, 'Mind Hunter.'

Mona Simpson

#11. after his lawyer argued that given the passage of time, he wouldn't have a fair hearing. He became a pariah in the offender-profiling world. Now,

Jon Ronson

#12. The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.

Donald Knuth

#13. From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of some preconceived idea of fear, our lives and our children's lives are not being valued.

Al Sharpton

#14. Racial profiling has to stop.

Bobby Rush

#15. I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it was the first time I had.

Kal Penn

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Rather than use the term 'profiling,' the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the analysts offer a range of other advice, including personality assessments and interview techniques tailored to a particular offender.

Ronald Kessler

#19. The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.

Hill Harper

#20. Show, don't tell, is a mantra repeated by tutors of creative writing courses the world over. As advice for amateurs, it is sound and helps avoid character profiling, unactivated scenes, and broken narrative frames.

Sarah Hall

#21. I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

George W. Bush

#22. Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and the fanatic who assassinated him.

Nicholas Kristof

#23. Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks' distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without understanding how cheap a black life was for so long a time in our nation's history?

Philip Dray

#24. I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.

Temple Grandin

#25. Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

Brian Sandoval

#26. I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

Judge Mills Lane

#27. At the start of the twenty-first century, the advertising industry is guiding one of history's most massive stealth efforts in social profiling.

Joseph Turow

#28. ...Most attackers aren't going to be dissuaded by a witty remark."

"That's profiling," said Mattheus. "Maybe they're Oscar Wilde fans."

"He did have great clothes."

"Proving that stereotypes can span centuries.

Amy Fecteau

#29. It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

KRS-One

#30. Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms.

Chris Cunningham

#31. They can argue whatever they want. The problem is, when you interview every passenger, during the interviews you are looking for - you profile - you do profiling, to find the suspicious ones and put them out from the rest of the passengers.

Isaac Yeffet

#32. I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.

Stephen Lang

#33. I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology.

Caitlin Kittredge

#34. When we go to court, they are going to have to come up with all the evidence where they are accusing me and my dedicated deputies of racial profiling. It's always easy to throw the race card in there and that's what they're doing in Washington today, that they're concerned about racial profiling.

Joe Arpaio

#35. 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

#36. I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

Wen Ho Lee

#37. When 'The Washington Post' ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term.

Ronald Kessler

#38. It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

Aberjhani

#39. Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling.

Mary Kissel

#40. I find that students are very strong on my issues, stronger than anyone: anti-death penalty, anti-racial profiling, campaign finance reform, questioning the anti-terrorism bill.

Russ Feingold

#41. I don't think Americans would tolerate profiling.

Jan Brewer

#42. Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the media's all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#43. The problem is, some officers put more stock in their title instead of their duty. Yes, your job title is "police." But your duty is to protect and serve. Start there.

Janelle Gray

#44. Whichever group is in ascension at a given moment is, historically speaking, both unlikely to acknowledge the existence of abuses or bias, and also to justify the bias on any grounds they can - social, biological, what have you.

Elizabeth Bear

#45. She didn't remember feeling nervous, as though someone was stalking her, watching her every move.

Elizabeth Heiter

#46. Bakersville was never going to be the same. She'd been to other small towns where the residents all thought serial killers looked like monsters, that no member of their community could hide such dark desires. Once upon a time, she'd lived in one.
And the monster there had ripped her life apart.

Elizabeth Heiter

#47. It's infuriating that yesterday, my father had to pull all my younger cousins into a room and tell them to be more careful. He had to explain that in some cases, their brown skin convicts them before an offense is even committed.

Janelle Gray

#48. Maybe, to do what you and I do, we have to have a little bit of the monster in us.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#49. Every time you read into something you miss the soul, while searching for the motive.

Shannon L. Alder

#50. Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

Tiger Woods

#51. I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to get inside his head. - Stephanie Carovella

Nina D'Angelo

#52. Jija killed his own son for what a completely different person did, long before that son's birth. This, more than anything, helps her finally understand that there is no reasoning with her father's hatred.

N.K. Jemisin

#53. For two years, she and Cassie had been inseparable. And then one night, Cassie had disappeared from her bed. In her place, her abductor had left his calling card, a macabre nursery rhyme. Cassie had never come home.

Elizabeth Heiter