• kinsnik@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    from the article:

    Black and Latino people are “much less likely to get arrested because the stops are bogus from the get-go,”

    so, no. the disproportionate number of stops is not because of differences in crime rates. but also, it should be pretty obvious that white people (who are around 30% of the NYC population) should account for more than just 5% of crimes, even considering that more crime will be committed by poor people, and that poor people will be disproportionately non-white.