Israeli security is based heavily on explicit racial profiling that is illegal in the US[0]. Their model is also great if you happen to be white and Jewish, but

Israeli security is based heavily on explicit racial profiling that is illegal in the US[0]. Their model is also great if you happen to be white and Jewish, but not so great if you're Arab[1]. In any case, we don't need to speculate. The TSA has actually been trained by former security officers from El Al, which is how we ended up with things like the "Behavioral Detection Officers", who have been accused of relying on race as a primary indicator[2], instead of "microexpressions" (which are themselves a rather suspect idea to begin with). Perhaps we could hire and train better officers (which would require paying them better wages), but that would be a rather unnecessary expense, given that the TSA itself has admitted that there is "no evidence of terrorist plots against aviation in the US"[3]. [0] That doesn't prevent it from being practiced in the US, but it's illegal. [1] http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/arabs-say-they-endure-degrading-airport-security-checks http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/arabs-say-they-endure-d... [2] http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/11/15/aclu-calls-for-inquiry-into-racial-profiling-investigation-logan/QRCgxIoHfHwculklDWD8FL/story.html http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/11/15/aclu-calls-fo... [3] http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/tsa-admits-in-leaked-doc-no-evidence-of-terrorist-plots-against-aviation-in-us/ http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/tsa-admits-...