Don't act like the shoe you don't want to be seen wearing.

As I understand it, when there is a suspected serial killer on the run, a profiler is sometimes called in to aid in the investigation. When I took a few basic forensics classes in college, I learned enough to be ignorant. So I'm not claiming rigid factual information here, but more a general point about profiling. In other words, my premise is based on the point in general, not the actual numbers. Many arguments must be made using empirical evidence, I get that. But this isn't one of them. The reason I'm not including data is so that the folks on the left will better understand what I'm trying to say, being that they don't use data very often and when they do, its mostly twisted to fit their narrative. So look at this as more of a child's fable, where you don't have to have facts to understand the moral of the story.

So back to the profiling thing. These profilers don't have a crystal ball and they cannot predict the future or read minds (although I'm sure someone will claim other wise). However, I'm betting that these folks do better with helping law enforcement catch these sick killers than just guessing and pulling names out of a hat...other wise, there wouldn't be any need for profilers and thus, wouldn't be any jobs and we wouldn't be having this discussion. There must be some type of advantage to using profilers that is better than not using profilers.

Glad that is now solved: profilers are better than just chance.

Ok, back to the moral. As with most things in college, you learn one thing and then you graduate and learn the truth. But my studies were in science, so there was at least a little bit of a foundation that was empirical, like atoms, molecules and the laws of physics (even though many of the things I just listed are in flux). Regardless, we learned that most serial killers are white males. We weren't given any stats, but curiosity led me down a rabbit hole one weekend. And even though the numbers were all over the place in the literature, most cited that the majority of serial killers were white males. Even if it was close to 50%, thats still quite a bit when you look at the percentage of white males in the U.S. Bizarrely, I didn't feel like I was being discriminated against by a racist system when I read article after article that said that most serial killers were males, like me, and white, like me. I saw the data as it was, data. I didn't get the urge to go tear down a statue of J. Edgar Hoover, burn down my local Aldi, nor did I get the sudden urge to defund the FBI or my local police department. In fact, I had the opposite feeling: I wanted more police. If there was a killer on the run, I know that many times, the only thing between the killer and the average citizen is a police officer. Hats off to these folks.

Does using profilers sometimes require that police have to interview the wrong person? Yes.

Does this mean that police often have to interview many folks that fit a certain profile? Yes.

Is every person they interview a killer? Of course not.

But then why are we as a society ok with police having to call in multiple people that fit a profile, even though they (police) know that all but one, or a few, of them will be innocent?

Because we KNOW that there is a killer out there. We know, intuitively, that you're not just going catch the killer on the first try, without several interviews. Sometimes you may get lucky, but most times, the killer is hunted for at least a few days and many times, much longer.

Lets look at DWI. One of my pet peeves. Dumb idiots driving after drinking. A truly selfish and narcissistic thing to do. We all know that there are certain times and places that there will almost always will be a few cops stopping folks, doing sobriety checks: New Years Eve, on bar avenue, near closing time or near midnight. Duh. So is this discrimination against sober drivers who might be driving in one of these areas at one of these times? Should I scream 'driver-ism' and accuse the police of being 'driver-ists'? What if I was getting off work from the hospital where I sometimes work until 2a? If I'm driving home from work and have to pass through an area where there are known DWI issues and I swerve to dodge something in the road, then get pulled over? Should I jump out of my car and assault the officer, try to take his/her weapon, run away, etc? Then, scream discrimination if I live to see a court date?

Eff NO !!!

You see, if you're a criminal, you don't get the same luxury of going home after a traffic stop as someone innocent. Just like if you're a serial killer, you don't get to go home after you get caught. And getting caught IS NOT racist. Its called being a criminal. And if you fit a certain profile, you might get stopped. Don't like that? Then change your profile. And NO, don't fire back at me and say that you can't control the color of your skin. I get that. This is very true. But you can control how you behave, what you say, how you act and whether or not you have an illegal weapon while being intoxicated. Those choices are 100% on YOU. The reason profiling is used is because in some cases, it works. Do police need more specialized training in profiling? Hell yes. This takes more money. So you want to defund the police? Wouldn't this potentially make things worse for you? Cant you see how ridiculous your arguments for defunding the police are?

There was a plane crash a few years ago that killed a lot of people. It was pilot error. Lets defund pilot training. Brilliant idea.