Recently released documents reveal the Department of Homeland Security has a computer system to determine travels what kind of a "risk" you are.  If you have flown internationally with in the last four years, you have most likely a rating next your name in the database.  The DHS calls it "one of the most advanced targeting systems in the world."  The systems purpose is to assess if a person is a 'criminal' or 'terrorist' and poses a threat to the public.  (check out the NYTimes article here)  This information may not come as a surprise to many, but should serve to affirm any suspicions folks have had.

To echo what Geov Parrish from Eat The State! said, maybe should start a rating system to determine the threat that public officials and police officers pose.  What would this system look like?  How would people like the president rate?  What about folks from corporations, like the CEO of Weyerhaeuser?  What about the Mayor and others in local government?