Abstract
The argument about whether the police are unfairly targeting for harassment innocent citizens because they are identifiable as blacks or Hispanics or simply going about their difficult jobs in a reasonably efficient way cannot be settled by listening to the testimony of the police themselves. An obvious way to resolve the contradictory perceptions is to get objective data on police behavior. To my knowledge, only the study of police behavior conducted by Professor Albert Reiss in the 1960s for the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice meets scientific standards of objectivity.