British Transport Police have been targeting specific ethnic groups for "intelligence-led" stop-and-searches as part of their heightened security measures.

BTP Chief Constable Ian Johnston said that his officers would not "waste time searching old white ladies".

Amazing what geting scores killed and scores maimed for life will do to previously PC folk. Again, this strayegy as described (if accurate) is NOT what I'd avocated which was instead a Bayseian probability guided search that, yes, profiled behaviour, age and ethnicity, but also searched other targets at random. Here in the US we continue to count 1 to 20 and then search whomever. Useless. Wouldn't want to offend CAIR or other terrorist apologist constituencies.