Writing in the New York Times, David Cole and John Lamberth argue that, "even on its own terms, racial profiling doesn't work." As proof they note that "73 percent of those stopped and searched on a [Maryland] section of Interstate 95 were black, yet state police reported that equal percentages of the whites and blacks who were searched, statewide, had drugs or other contraband."

[Ed.: In the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September, polls by Gallup and Zogby found that African Americans are more likely than other racial groups to favor profiling and stringent airport security checks for Arabs and Arab-Americans.]

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