All panelists addressed the link between the war on drugs and racial profiling. "You will not see a reduction in racial profiling until there is an end to the war on drugs," said Timothy Lynch, a Cato scholar who heads the institute's Project on Criminal Justice.

Nkechi Taifa, a professor at Howard University Law School, agreed that the criminality of drugs inspires many instances of racial profiling.

Reuben Greenberg, who for two decades has been the police chief of Charleston, S.C., commented that racial profiling is "really an argument against drug enforcement."

The panel failed to agree on the scope and nature of racial profiling. However, they did agree that police stop suspects in various crimes primarily on the basis of race.

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