Drug Task Force Highway Interdiction Flawed
See the new ACLU public policy report, "Flawed Enforcement," published May 19, 2004, which analyzes the traffic interdiction activities of narcotics task forces funded by the federal Byrne grant program. The study found that task forces search motorists more often than other law enforcement agencies, that almost no task force searches involve probable cause, that task forces fail to give tickets at most stops, and that most task forces search minorities more than whites. The study explores themes first raised in the December 2002 ACLU of Texas report, Too Far Off Task.

In the largest study of racial profiling data ever, ACLU of TX, TX NAACP, TX LULAC and the Texas Crimnal Justice Reform Coalition released in February 2004 this public policy report. The study examined data from 413 police and sheriff's departments representing more than 70 percent of traffic tickets issued in Texas in 2002.