Gilbert believes that he was singled out because he is “a 6-foot-tall, bespectacled, slightly graying, 52-year-old, 230-pound African American male with a close hair cut.” In other words, that he was the target of racial profiling.
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psychological profiling
Ned Levi examines TSA’s new random hand swabbing program to detect explosive residue on airplane passengers and finds that it’s unlikely to work, despite claims of security experts, mostly because they’ve focused on the equipment, and not the overall security program of which they are a part.
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In his letter to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, Ned asks for TSA to stop using the “politics of fear,” and instead “make-over” DHS/TSA, its rules, regulations and policies using the “politics of courage.” Ned suggests a number of steps Secretary Napolitano can use to transform DHS/TSA.
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Ned Levi has surveyed the state of the commercial airline industry in light of a year of serious security and service failures. To combat those problems Ned has suggested New Year’s resolutions for the government and the airlines.
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