Yes, yes, unpleasant reasons. Such as being young, black, and standing outside.
OK, devil's advocate here, but why not Asians? Sure, there are comparatuve few of us, but we don't seem to attract police attention. As my family has learned durng the Great Covid 19 Massacre, we're just as likely to face racist attack by non-Asians (Virus paranoia directed at Asians appears to be as prevalent amongst blacks as whites, while for same reason Latijnos seem to be immune. Strictly anecdotal, or course, TIFWIW) as anyone else, the cops seem to ignore us unless there's some specific reason not to (90 in a 45, for instance). I suspect a cultural reason there (ours, not their's). Just saying.
Between 2003 and 2013, over 100,000 stops were made per year, with 685,724 people being stopped at the height of the program in 2011. The program became the subject of a
racial profiling controversy. Ninety percent of those stopped in 2017 were
African-American or
Latino, mostly aged 14–24.
Seventy percent of those stopped were later found to be innocent.
But aren't you in the least horrified that
a full 30% were not? That almost 1 in 3 of the people who were randomly stopped had evidence of criminal conduct?
And there's the cultural factor I spoke of earlier. We're brought up with the idea that there are a lot of things that come under the heading of "
we don't do that", with
we being our family, we as Koreans (fun fact - my dad plainly considered us kids white, my mom just as plainly considered us Korean, and that aplied to our extended families as well. So yeah
we Koreans.), we as our church, etc. I think maybe we, at least to some extent, see ourselves that way, so we really d
on't do those things. I think that becomes "
they don't do that" from others dealing with us as well. We're just not the usual suspects, and I think you find that reflected in crime stats.
By contrast, 54.1% of the population of New York City in 2010 was African-American or Latino;
[2] however, 74.4% of individuals arrested overall were of those two racial groups.
[3]
My conclusion then is to arrest more white people. OK, not realy. The question is whether or not the arest percentages actually correspond to the number crimes committed. If not, then yeah, y'all are being put upon. But if they do, then y'all have a serious problem that all the social/societal stuff in the world isn't gonna cure until somebody figures out why.