Liberals are making the wrong case against racial profiling

Since the issue of racial profiling leads off my book, and it seems to be dominating current debate and punditry in the United States, I thought readers might find this article useful. I'll give you a link to the entire piece, but here, briefly, is the author's conclusion:

"Of course, sometimes racial profiling is simply baseless or counterproductive, and critics shouldn't hesitate to say so. But a key lesson of the recent debate over the Arizona law — a debate the law's critics are losing — is that profiling opponents can't win the larger argument without taking a more principled stand. Racial profiling is wrong because whatever good it does is inadequate to justify the harm it causes. At the same time, it's just not true that it's inevitably ineffective or that it's always grounded in racist falsehoods. By conceding that much, we could shift the discussion away from whether profiles are accurate and toward the real damage they do to American values and innocent people.