How do you explain the fact that black people are disproportionately arrested?
How do you explain that black people are disproportionately responsible for all crime?
They aren't responsible for more crime, they're just caught and convicted more.
Tons of black people in jail for smoking pot, because cops frequent black neighbourhoods. Meanwhile, I can smoke pot every day outside and never see a single cop car and thus not get arrested.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Cops arrest more black people, crime rates show that black people are "responsible for more crime", cops use this as an excuse to continue canvassing black neighbourhoods and finding more people to arrest. Meanwhile all us white people can keep doing the same things they do and not getting arrested for it.
in addition, the main factor in crime rates is poverty: people commit more crimes when they're in a state of desperation, and black people are much more likely to be in such a state ---