London – Further evidence that behavioral profiling does work. A terrorist attack on London was averted because two beat patrol officers stopped a man who was acting suspiciously while filming with a mobile phone, police claimed yesterday.The Algerian man said that he was a tourist, but when his phone was examined it yielded 90 minutes of footage of stations, security cameras and shopping centers.
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Awesome job for the Brits. Unfortunately in our country, our liberal Supreme Court judges have ruled that to protect terrorist’s rights (even though they are not US citizens) law enforcement has to get a search warrant before they can check the contents of cell phones. So much for protecting the rights of law abiding potential victims.