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ACLU: Boston Airport Screening Looks Like Racial Profiling

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Published November 27, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Massachusetts state troopers use a technique called "behavior pattern recognition" to screen passengers at Boston's Logan International Airport. The ACLU says it sounds like racial profiling. Fred Thys reports.

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