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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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Of course if your police tend to arrest black guys for crimes that they give white guys a pass on, as research has consistently shown, its quite likely they will be over represented in the stats.