The hypocrisy has reached new levels

[kandrathe]

I agree that there is little data management (or cooking the numbers) . But, the primary law of statistics is that correlation does not indicate causality.

Without deeper research and analysis into the source of the data you cannot make determinations as to whether or not the system is racist.

It could be that blacks commit more crimes per capita, or that blacks commit more crimes that are investigated. I'm asking for more variables to be analyzed. Why was a case dropped, or prosecuted by the DA? How about arrest and investigation information (where, when, how, who) and is there a correlation to the amount of resources that are devoted to convicting criminals and the regions where these minorities live. The flaw with pointing to the data and claiming racism, is that there is no place in that data that proves that non-blacks commit the same ratio of crimes, but are not caught or convicted.

But apparently blacks are far more likely to get locked up for it.

That conclusion is not supported by those numbers. One would need to show a disparity between crimes committed by race, to arrests by race, to convictions by race. If the disparity is between crimes committed and arrests, then the police are not arresting the non-black criminals. If the disparity is between the arrests and convictions, then the prosecutors are not convicting the the non-black criminals. For convictions, you need to look at recidivism. Courts are more likely to be more lenient for younger, and first time offenders.

Thus my point that racism isn't dead.

I don't think it is either. I don't know if it ever will be. Xenophobia seems to be a human trait.