Many in the political right wing are advocating for more racial profiling, or at least cultural profiling. Think Progress explains why these approaches don't work and why we should instead use behavior profiling.
Just when I think we're making progress, we go and pull the one-step-forward-ten-steps-back trick. First, a friend tells me about how her daughter was treated recently in a suburb of New York City. The daughter is 17 and African-American, although my friend is Caucasian. Her daughter was adopted from Sierre…