Racial Profiling Rife at Boston Airport, Officers Say
More than 30 federal Transportation Security Administration officers in the behavior detection program at Logan International Airport in Boston have reported that the operation has become a magnet for racial profiling instead of terrorist detection, according to a report from the New York Times.
In interviews and internal complaints, these officers asserted that passengers who fit certain profiles – Hispanics traveling to Miami or blacks wearing baseball caps backward – are more likely to be stopped, searched and questioned for “suspicious” behavior, possibly to meet managers’ demands for high numbers of stops, the article says.