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more federal spending on snake oil

2016-01-01 01:23:32.192626+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Prior to San Bernardino Attack, Many Were Trained to Spot Terrorists; None Did:

These behavioral indicators have become central to the U.S. counterterrorism prevention strategy, yet critics say they don’t work. “Quite simply, they rely on generalized correlations found in selectively chosen terrorists without using control groups to see how often the correlated behaviors identified occur in the non-terrorist population,” Michael German, a former FBI agent who is currently a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, told The Intercept.

About the big bucks business of training law enforcement in the thoroughly debunked notion of behavior indicators.

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