Profiling Is Bad

Gee, in the past I've supported the idea of profiling as a way to more effectively use of policing and security resources. But then I see articles like this that point out the extremes in profiling gone bad.

Fro some reason, I'm thinking that someone's parents forget to teach them that "sorry" isn't always enough. There are some mistakes that are forever. Assassination is one of them.

The supreme irony here is that there is a decent likelihood that the murderer in this case was, at least once, sprung free by his victim's father. I don't agree with the father's having supported terrorists through providing them legal defense, but this is much too high a price to pay.

The most sickening part though is this:

"We will consider him as a martyr like hundreds of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces," the al-Aqsa brigades leader said...

So, they kill him and, along with a letter of apology, the best that they can offer the family is to act like their child was killed by the Israelis.

What???

The Israelis did not kill this young man. They had nothing to do with his murder! This was a case of hate motivated murder gone bad.

Sorry doesn't make it right. Sorry doesn't make it better. They took the life of another person simply because they believed he was a person whom they hated for purely racist reasons.

Maybe profiling does have some problems....