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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Do Syracuse police officers use racial profiling when stopping people? One study says yes. One says no.

Dozens of community members turned out Monday night to find out the results of these two studies. Both were conducted by independent research firms. The one showed there wasn't any racial profiling when it came to who was pulled over in traffic stops. The other showed that when police searched and frisked people, more African Americans were searched and released, which researchers say shows they're being searched without a good reason.

But the Chief of Police counters saying 90 percent of the shots fired suspects and 80 percent of the victims are African Americans.

"I'm sending my officers where the problems are. And if there's going to be a racial profiling study or any other study for that matter, that's going to come out that's going to indicate that any type of biases in the way that I deploy my personnel, then so be it," said Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler.

Both sets of researchers agree there are a lot of variables and unmeasureable factors and that these studies are just starting points.

The Syracuse Police Department plans to have copies of both reports available on their website, www.syracusepolice.org, on Tuesday morning.