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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Is it, though? You look at other stats, where, while African Americans do only make up 13% of the US population, they are leading most of the other categories in violent crimes.
Why do they have more encounters with police? Because police tend to go/be called to where crime is happening.
Seems to me that if you want to stop Black/Police encounters, then there is a lot of social work that needs to be done first or at least perhaps concurrently. 13% of the population shouldn't be committing 50%+ of its crime.
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This completely ignores the idea of systemic racism and the fact that it permeates through the justice system as well.
The fact that the White/black prison population are almost equal, despite black Americans accounting for only 13% of the population, is due in no small part to racist tendencies in the American justice system. The answer isn't "it's only because of racism," but that is a significant part of it.
Give this article a read, it goes into more detail:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8078586.html
And please, show a source regarding the 50%+ of crimes that black Americans are responsible for. Not for a point of my own, but you should at least be providing sources for stat claims meant to be factual.