ABSTRACT. Racial profiling is an important issue in, con policing. Racial profiling research has primarily involved t (1 ) examining traffic stop data, and (2) using a benchmark or the discovery of racial profiling. A smaller literature has exa searches to uncover racial profiling. The purpose of the press to examine traffic stop data-in particular searches-in underst cial profiling. Using data more than 40,000 traffic stops from I Kentucky, the present study found that race is one of many are used in the determination of a search. The policy implicati finding are discussed. doi: 10. 1300/J222v0601_03 / Article copi for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWOI address: Website: