[Closed] 7/7 bombings

In many ways the 53rd fatality of 7/7 and the atmosphere it generated.

Agree.

Wife & I were on a bus in Sydney, coming home from a days sightseeing.
A chap overheard our Pommy accents & said how sorry he was... 😐
We hadn't heard up until that point.
Given the time difference it must have just happened.
Very sad day indeed.

Since people have mentioned 9/11 as well, I discovered this the other day - a lecture from the pilot of Air Force One on the day:

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Passed a 'colored' guy this morning (not much good at identifying race) with a rucksack, between St Pauls and Cannon Street, with a police car stopped beside him and the officer questioning him.

He was showing his work pass.

At first I thought the copper might be pulling him for having too short trousers...

Racial profiling at its best - but in reality how would you handle it - pull an equal number of different 'profile' types to be PC, or target profile types that might be 'most' likely?

Should the 'colored' guy be annoyed that he was pulled because of what he looked like, or should he be glad that the copper was 'possibly' using some smarts in his quest to try to keep him safe ?

......and the officer questioning him.

Well that doesn't sound like the appropriate course of action to be taking.

Surely if he was a proper terrorist it's quite possible that he might be lying. Shouldn't the officer have been looking inside his rucksack or carting him away for some more intense "questioning" ?

I expect police officers to ensure that our streets are safe not to fanny around with political correctness.

TurnerGuy - Member

Racial profiling at its best - but in reality how would you handle it - pull an equal number of different 'profile' types to be PC, or target profile types that might be 'most' likely?

Neither, racial profiling's just useless unless you're dealing with small populations and strong correlations, and anything useless in policing is actually detrimental- wastes time, distracts, and causes confusion, worry and enmity. It's not a matter of PC or anything, just maths.

racial profiling at its best - but in reality how would you handle it - pull an equal number of different 'profile' types to be PC, or target profile types that might be 'most' likely?

What? The snapshot you saw as rode past was a racist one?

I was in London the 6th of July, clearly remember coppers...some of them armed.. running into a station and telling everyone to get out ASAP.

The next day the bombings occurred, felt a bit strange. Perhaps that video explains it, that they had been running drills around the same time. Always wondered if they'd got some intel and made a cock up of it.