The report said that black people were arrested much more often than white people. But is this just because blacks commit more crime than whites (which is true), or is it due to racism on the part of the police? The report didn't try to address this.
Sorry for the typo / extra word. I meant to write:
The report did not claim....
We know the answer to this based on murder statistics. Black people commit more murders by a considerable margin. If we use murder rates as a surrogate for other crimes, everything falls into place, and we find blacks are arrested at about appropriate rates. Heather Mac Donald has written extensively on this.
Whites need to step it up and commit their share of crime. It’s not fair to make blacks do all the work.
It cannot are the question since it ignored the underlying facts. Without the underlying facts, it’s impossible to know if there’s a racism problem or a community behavioral demographic problem. The problem assuming Latinos and blacks act the same as whites is the exact opposite of what woke, critical race theory, etc are telling us. A deep dive into the underlying facts of the cases is the only way to see if there’s disparate treatment by police.
I’ve posted it before and it seems like the Seattle auditor needs to read it - maybe several times so they get through their woke-ness:
https://www.amren.com/the-color-of-crime/
Remove 2 certain ethnicities and crime plummets. Is that too hard for liberals to understand? (See tagline)