FA_Q2
Gold Member
That is a viable theory for a victimless crime like simple drug possession. It is NOT, however, viable for crimes like murder and rape.I think that you should think about your post, airplane. If more blacks are stopped and frisked, then obviously more blacks will be arrested. It's a self-perpetuating closed thinking loop.
Your claim that blacks commit more crimes is based on arrest statistics.
Do you think blacks use drugs at a higher rate than whites? (statistically, they don't).
Do you think blacks steal more than whites, or are they just assumed to be thieves more than whites?
If we assume a particular race is more predisposed to crime, enforcement is likely to be focused on people of that race. Thus, more arrests of that race will occur, which again feeds the belief, which keeps the cycle going.
Think about it for a minute. Forget everything you think you know, and ask yourself...do you really think black people are innately more criminal than white people?
Really?
Or do you think there may be other factors at play?
Those convictions are not going to be based around police focusing on a particular segment of the population like possession is. Further, the MASSIVE disparity (blacks commit murders approximately 5 times as often as whites) cannot be explained away by this idea. It might play a minor role but there is more going on here than simple bias.