"The police pay disproportionate attention to people of color, so many of those people are more likely to have criminal records — which are used, with circular logic, to justify more scrutiny." It is common in progressive circles to repeat the claim that people of color, particularly blacks, are arrested so often because police target them unfairly. This empirical claim should be scrutinized in the light of crime statistics gathered and published by the US DoJ in its National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). The best test of police bias is to compare an independent and objective …
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