Racial Incarceration Disparities

Not sure why you're reading racism in that. Around a third of black men spend time behind bars in the US:http://www.alternet.org/story/154587/1_in_3_black_men_go_to_...

You really can't, because black people are arrested, tried and convicted WAY disproportionately to the actual rate of crimes. eg white people smoke weed as much or more than black people, and are arrested at a far lower rate for it.

I really encourage you to read The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.Hand waving away racial influences is convenient to some, but definitely not to those affected by it. If you look into the statistics, you'll see that primarily minority communities were targeted by the "tough on crime" era. And these touted "tough on crime" policies only had the effect of enslaving and crippling generations of minority communities.The crime rates are

>The unfortunate truth is that black people are more likely to commit violent crime in the US.It doesn't make much sense to cite the proportion of black people convicted of a crime by US law enforcement as evidence refuting the claim that the US law enforcement's interaction with people changes according to their race. The proportion of black people convicted of [category] crimes could be high for many reasons, including actually higher incidence of such crimes among blacks, raci

This is like saying arresting people for being black is good because black people tend to commit crimes.

Is it fair to demand that whites and blacks be pulled over at the same rate, when whites and blacks do not commit crimes at the same rate? For example, African Americans make up 12.6% of the US population, but commit:- 52.6% of all murders [0]- 29.1% of all rapes [0]- 54.5% of all robberies [0]In fact, when it comes to almost every single violent crime category, blacks commit them at a rate that's at least twice that of whites. [0]So statistically speaking, being black is a s

You would also need to control for unreported crime in non-black races. If the police ignore minor crimes by some races (eg not arresting white people found with small quantities of drugs) while they do arrest black people for the same crimes, or if the police ignore crime committed in white neighbourhoods and focus their efforts on arresting black people, then "black rates of crime are higher" is a fiction that stems from systemic police racism and isn't provably real.The prob

You say crime, history says racism.

It's been shown that while blacks have similar rates of drug use, blacks have a much higher rate of arrest, conviction, and higher sentencing. I think this is the point that was being made: the criminal justice system itself is racially biased, thus eliminating past convictions as a factor is in the spirit of eliminating racial bias.

Same when comparing racial disparity in crime/prison.