Airport surveillance does not reduce terrorism but builds racial hierarchies

Evidence

But these practices, as shown in this book, are not effective in reducing terrorism but instead create racial hierarchies. Statistics show that Americans have a 1 in 45,808 chance of being killed by a foreign terrorist attack, based on data collected from 1975 to 2015 (Nowrasteh 2016). Americans are more likely to die due to health issues, like heart attacks and cancer, or even an animal attack, than from foreign terrorism. Yet the fear of Muslims and terrorism drives support for increased surveillance. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 480

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports ‘On Sacrifice: The Real Kind’ — irrational fear driving expensive, ineffective state violence instead of protecting against statistically negligible threats.
• XREF: The 1-in-45,808 statistic pairs with the reader’s noise-risk framing and with moral-panic literature where perceived threat vastly exceeds measured risk. — connects to: Surveillance itself racializes target groups into a suspicious race — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 75