>>2883128Black Americans are arrested and incarcerated at disproportionately high rates. Differences in policing strategies, police presence, neighborhood surveillance, prosecutorial decisions, and sentencing all contribute to those disparities.
For drug use, surveys consistently find that Black and White Americans use illegal drugs at broadly similar rates, yet Black Americans have historically been arrested for drug offenses at much higher rates. This is a clear example where enforcement differs from underlying behavior.
Crime statistics describe interactions between people and the criminal justice system instead of innate characteristics of demographic groups. Interpreting statistics requires considering how crime is measured, reported, policed, prosecuted, and sentenced.
Racists aren't really interested in any of this, they are interested in doing more racism, which means interpreting statistics to justify exacerbating whatever underlying social problems resulted in those statistics in the first place.
>>2883150>>2883155White supremacists and zionists don't see Iraq war crimes as crimes because it was committed by the World Police (tm). You see, police can't do crimes. In fact, if a police does a crime to you, it makes you a criminal.