K guys. The first line of my post was a joke.
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Let me put a similar, but slightly different, hypothetical to you: are police in Toronto justified in pulling over cars driven by black males? would you be comfortable with this practice?
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If it was backed up with hard and real numbers and could be done in a non-invasive fashion that made the benefits of pulling them over outweigh the costs inflicted on the person being pulled over then yes. But then you open up the floor to another discussion on what crimes would justify such searches.
Isn't NYC doing something like this with pedestrains?
ANYWAYS...
Lets relax. Everyone is getting a bit too defensive.
Sorry for the sidebar. I just wanted to gauge opinions and see what discussions came up. Clearly I didn't think through my original scenerio on this issue and I apologize for the side tracking. Silver summed up my thoughts quite well and worded it much better then me.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming...
(Vulcan must feel like a child in disneyland right now)