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The only real conclusion you can reach from those statistics is that blacks are much more likely to be caught and convicted and incarcerated for certain crimes than whites. It raises the question of whether this is because blacks commit more crimes per capita than whites or blacks are more likely per capita to get caught and convicted than whites. I suspect the answer is a little of both.
What I think would be helpful would be to have statistics about race when police make contact with the public. I'd like to see statistically how much more likely it is for a black driver to be pulled over than a white driver. Only with information like that can we really make sense of the statistics above.
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