Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   So all other types of criminal profiling are ok, but not profiling based
> > on how someone looks like?

> No. It's not legal to profile anyone before a crime has been committed.

  I don't think that's the case. There are all kinds of typical profiles
of several types of criminals. For example "a serial killer is typically
a white middle-aged male".

> Nobody minds being asked to show proof of citizenship if a crime has been 
> committed, or even if a crime *might* have been committed. This law isn't 
> that. This law is stopping people just in case maybe a crime has been committed.

  Maybe it's just me, but I really don't see a difference between "might
have been" and "maybe has been"... You probably used poor wording for that.

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                                                          - Warp

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