Prison Policy InitiativeBlacks do not commit crimes in greater rate than our population.
Black people are disproportionately stopped on the street by police, while white people are much more likely to call the police for helphttps://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/07/27/disparities/#slideshows/slideshow1/1
Among individuals who have any contact with police, people of color disproportionately experience the use of force
Visualizing the racial disparities in mass incarceration
Black people are disproportionately likely to be arrested, and to be arrested repeatedly in the same year
Visualizing the racial disparities in mass incarceration
Black youth are arrested far out of proportion to their share of all youth in the U.S.
Visualizing the racial disparities in mass incarceration
The juvenile justice system confines Black youth at over 4 times the rate of white youthVisualizing the racial disparities in mass incarceration
Visualizing the racial disparities in mass incarceration
The Prison Policy Initiative sees this as the result of white racism. I see it as the result of the sky high black crime rate that generates white racism.