The alternative is to keep relearning the same lesson at higher costs. Societies that refuse to judge patterns eventually pay for judging consequences. Security profiling is not a retreat from liberty; it is the price of preserving it.

Three weeks later, the foreseeable unfolded. The same boy, still unchecked, collided with a seventy three-year-old Greek woman inside the centre. She fell, striking her head and suffering a massive hematoma.