Why did profiling
become such an important crime-fighting tool??
shareIt became a method to circumvent a suspect's civil rights that previously didn't exist.
It gave law enforcement a way around illegal search and seizure laws.
Some -that is SOME- judges who wouldn't previously grant FBI warrants on flimsy evidence, may grant warrants on the same flimsy evidence with statistical profiling data piled on.
None will grant warrants on profiling data alone.
That's racial profiling, the OP meant the type used in forensic and behavioral science (the recording and analysis of a person's psychological and behavioral characteristics, so as to assess or predict their capabilities in a certain sphere or to assist in identifying a particular subgroup of people.) But to answer their question when you don't know who you're looking for a psychological profile can limit the suspect pool.
shareHa, now we got several posters using unsub names...
Billy Flynn, Clara Hayes (I had to look up who that was), and now Tommy Yates.