More than half of all people stopped in roadside checks by Dutch police are ethnic minorities, a new study reveals. The Police and Science Research study found officers do not consciously target suspects based on appearance, but are prone to "stereotypes of the average criminal," as researcher Wouter Landman put it. Ethnic profiling has been a hot political issue in the Netherlands, and a poll conducted in June showed 64 percent of respondents support ethnic profiling to help fight crime, but 32 percent do consider it a "form of racism."