NEW YORK, NY November 20, 2007 —A Rand Corporation study of the NYPD’s stop and frisk program concluded the department generally did not engage in racial profiling. But Dr. Gregory Ridgeway, with Rand, said his analysis identified some officers who required closer scrutiny.

RIDGEWAY: There are fifteen officers. Each individual one is to be looked at separately. Talk to their supervisors; look at other patterns they are involved in. That is all we need to know. Here are the individual officers. Let's find out what is going on with them.

REPORTER: Six of the officers flagged were from the Queens South borough command. The report also identified Staten Island as one potential area for follow-up. The survey looked at the records of twenty seven hundred officers, who accounted for most of the stops made last year. Almost 90 percent of the half-million stops were of people of color.

The New York Civil Liberties Union disputes the Rand Report's conclusions. The NYCLU is suing the NYPD for the Department's Stop and frisk data base because it believes the Department is engaging in illegal racial profiling.