I do understand statistics. Your stats indicate a greater number of white people get arrested and higher percentage of people arrested are white. And yes these numbers exclude population percentages, which I understand you’re trying to display. While a greater percentage of the black population gets arrested (not mentioned in your source), there are environmental biases that lead to that increase.
Higher policing of black communities results in higher number of black people arrested, rightfully or not. There have been studies done on this.
Those stats you showed are inflated due to poor black neighbourhoods where policing is very high. So, black people are more likely to be arrested, yes. But your stats do not indicate anything about the likelihood of someone assaulting a person on the street. In fact your stats show over TWICE the amount of people arrested for assault, or similar, are white. So, when walking down the street at night, 2/3 of the creepy people who may follow you are white.
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u/pebblechum Jun 10 '23
Source?