Whites searched 'for race balance'. Did they find it?

My first thought on seeing Metro's main front page headline today was: 'So did they find it?'



As it turns out, 'whites' is the object, not the subject, of the headline (which is written in the passive voice).

(UPDATE 19/07/09: As Garik points out in the comments following this post, 'whites' is actually the subject of this passive sentence.)

The first paragraph of the story clarifies the matter:

Police are searching white people under terror laws simply to provide 'racial balance' to statistics, it was revealed yesterday.

Last year I blogged about police stopping and searching commuters and schoolgirls at my local station...