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Which brings us to another delicate matter: Can racial profiling sometimes be justified? That depends on your definition, which requires a short jaunt into the history of the term. Most criminologists credit former FBI chief of research Howard Teten with inventing (or at least popularizing) the idea of "profiling." In the late 1950s, Teten was a rare combination of cop and scholar. He worked crime scenes for the San Leandro, Calif., police and took classes in psychology at Berkeley. Now 68, Teten says most departments back then gathered evidence at crime scenes only to find direct clues about a criminal...
...techniques helped solve many crimes, and in 1969 he began teaching courses on profiling for the FBI. Within a decade, agents who had taken his courses had migrated throughout the bureau, and by the early '80s, profiling had spread to some local police departments. But Teten says his fairly limited notion of profiling--identifying a criminal's personality traits by analyzing the nature of his crime--was expanded too quickly by police who didn't have much training in psychology. Teten thought of profiling as a tool primarily for murder investigations, but it was now being used even in robberies...
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