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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 15 fighter pilots Tsa wants air Crews trained in but few show for course by Del Quentin Wilber the Washington Post Washington after several hours of kicking and disarming imagined at two longtime airline pilots practice what their instructors called an extremely effective technique to defend an air plane against a terrorist the pilots and instructors lunged at each other and pretended to Rake their fingernails Down an assailants face to inflict the Maxi mum damage and possibly pop out an it Doest matter How big or How mus Cle bound they instructor Shawn Ger Man told the pilots during a recent Daylong training session in if you get them in the they Are going to go although the pilots said the course was Valu Federal officials Are struggling to boost the participation of airline Crew members in the on Day Only two people showed up to take the monday morning and neither was a flight the target group for the the free program offered by the transportation Security administration has trained flight Crew most of them flight Atten since it began three years the graduates represent less than 1 percent of the flight attendants and nearly pilots who Are eligible to take the the program is designed Michael Post Shawn standing and Charles Ash teach Sel defense to pilots Steve and Kevin Federal officials Are struggling to boost the participation of airline Crew members in the on Day to give flight air marshal service officials said they were taking Steps to improve last and teach them to think about How to defend themselves and their the which Are offered at 10 Sites around the have not been heavily promoted by the government or airlines do not give Crew members time off to attend the which Means employees have to do it on their free officials airlines Are Cool to the training and would probably fight any efforts to make it Mandato 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in an theres some stability in the findings Over these three traffic stops have become a politically volatile minority groups have complained that Many stops and searches Are based on race rather than on legitimate Blacks in partic ular have complained of being pulled Over for simply driving while the available data is sketchy but deeply said Hilary director of the Naa cps Washington he called for Federal legislation that would collect uniform data by race on use of searches and hit like the 2002 this one contained a warning that the racial disparities uncovered do not constitute proof that police treat people differently along demographic lines because the differences could be explained by circumstances not Analysed by the the 2002 report said such circumstances might in clude Driver conduct or whether drugs were in Plain traffic stops Are the most fre quent Way police interact with the accounting for 41 per cent of All according to the study Blacks percent and his panics percent were much More Likely to be searched than Whites Blacks percent were More than twice As Likely As Whites percent to be arrest hispanic Drivers were arrested percent of the among All police Public con Force was used percent of the but Blacks per cent and hispanics percent were More Likely than Whites percent to be subjected to Force or the threat of Force by police of  
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