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[DuncanONeil]

"Furthermore, my claims of potential for bias are based on a long history of bias and racial profiling in many police forces around the country."

Sorry but this statement makes an assumption and assumes it is correct within itself.

I make specific assumptions to demonstrate one example. This is a common technique to show problems with data.

My point is not that the people are biased against rappers, and that leads to a higher conviction of blacks. My point is that if they were it could lead to biases in the data.

As for racial profiling itself it has been used for a long time. It is effective at catching people of certain races.

On what basis do you assume police have an equal chance of catching a culprit regardless of their race/background? To me that seems a massive unsupported assumption that you need to conclude that the arrest/conviction data reflect the crimes committed data.