On 5/5/2010 12:49 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> This is rather odd given that criminal profiling is an important tool of
>> investigation especially in the US:
>
> That's a different kind of profiling.
>
> "Offender profiling is a behavioral and investigative tool"
>
> It's for investigating, not arresting. It's based on behavior, not
> statistics.
>
> As I said, I'm not against "profiling" someone who is driving
> erratically and then checking if they're drunk. I'm not against
> "profiling" someone who isn't paying taxes comparable to their lifestyle
> and finding out if they're getting paid under the table because they're
> in the country illegally.
>
> The profiling people object to is the profiling based on things that
> *don't* have to do with the crime under investigation, such as genetics,
> age, clothing, hair style, or car color.
>
> Or, to sum it up again:
>
> 1) When doing offender profiling, you already know there's an offender
> involved.
>
> 2) The profile you develop is specific to the criminal, based on clues
> left at a crime scene.
>
> 3) When doing offender profiling, you don't use the profile as a means
> to determine who to arrest. You use it as a means to determine who to
> investigate and what further clues to look for and what kind of traps to
> set.
>
> In other words, you use the profile as a means of looking for more
> clues, not as a means of identifying a person. If the profile says "He
> probably had a vehicle", you ask the parking attendant for the video
> tapes of the cars that went in and out of the crime scene. You don't
> stop everyone with a vehicle and ask them for fingerprints. When the
> profile says "cunning" it means you don't set an obvious trap and hope
> the criminal won't notice; it doesn't mean you investigate lost of smart
> people who were around that day. If the profile says "likes to kill
> blond teenagers", you don't send cops dressed like little old black
> ladies walking around the park at night as bait in a trap for him.
>
> "Various aspects of the criminal's personality makeup are determined
> from his or her choices before, during, and after the crime."
>
> Offender profile is "this is what we think the criminal in *this* case
> is like, because of the clues he left." It's also used mainly when
> someone is committing *multiple* crimes in the same way. There's 500
> murders this year. But *these* six all had the victim tied up by their
> left ankle from a tree and had their nose mashed in with a hammer left
> at the site. If we catch someone doing that a seventh time, it's
> probably a good idea to ask him about the other six.
>
Exactly. This is the real thing, which too much of the simplistic TV 
gibberish you see "isn't".

> Racial profiling is "a majority of the people who commit crime X have
> trait Y that they can neither control nor change, but we're going to
> look disproportionately at people with trait Y, presupposing that a
> disproportionate number of them will commit crime X."
>
Precisely, and why, when it has been used, it fails as often as it works.

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