You often times like the make an effort to simplify things this particular situation is not one that is deserving of oversimplification.
The large growth of the United States’ criminal legal system in the late 20th century brought a widening racial gap in incarceration. By the year 2000, Black people made up almost half of the state prison population but only about 13% of the U.S.2 population. And although a wave of changes to sentencing and corrections policies over the past two decades has helped lessen disparities in federal and state prisons, black adults still were imprisoned in 2020 at five times the rate for white adults.
In 2022, Black people made up 12% of the local populations but 26% of the jail populations on average across the 595 jails from the JDI sample for which race data was available for the entire year. Of these jails, in almost 71% (421), the share of the jail population that was Black was at least twice that of the locality as a whole. (See Figure 1.) And the disparity was much greater in some jurisdictions: In more than 2 in 5 of those 421 jails (41%), Black people made up at least four times as much of the jail population as of the local general population.
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2023/05/racial-disparities-persist-in-many-us-jails
So one must ask do black people commit more crimes than white people? I don't think so but I sure think that white judges are much more likely to lock up black men than they are white men, there's no doubt that there's still a significant amount of systemic racism in the US.
I have black friends and Hispanic friends in the US, and I've driven with them and I've seen how they're treated differently by the police that I am.
Weird how the UK had a net migration of almost 1 million last year and "achieved" growth of 0.1% in October. How is it even possible that an extra million people barely move the needle on GDP?
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