Answer Part Two
Total arrests
American
Indian or Asian or
Alaskan Pacific
Total White Black Native Islander

TTL 10662206 7382063 3015905 142908 121330


Murder 9859 4721 4935 99 104
Rape 16847 10990 5428 198 231
Robbery 100525 41962 56948 681 934
Assault 328736 208081 112325 4453 3877
Burglary 235407 157252 73960 2077 2118
theft 979145 666360 286844 12684 13257
GTA 74881 44674 28510 795 902
Arson 10734 8139 2331 132 132

Viole \b\ 455967 265754 179636 5431 5146
Prpty \c\ 1300167 876425 391645 15688 16409

Percentages to follow

Quote Originally Posted by SadisticNature View Post
While you're at it you could try and find data on random stops. Police tend to be more suspicious of black people, so there are a far higher rate of random stops, and a far higher rate of searches at the border etc.

I have several acquaintances who smoke marijuana, 4 of whom took their personal amounts across the border, the three white guys weren't searched, the one minority was. Admittedly this is only an anecdotal case, but if stuff like this plays out in the larger data, then its quite likely blacks are not necessarily committing more crimes but rather are being treated with suspicion and hence are caught more frequently.

So looking it how arrests compare to convictions wouldn't show you the larger picture of what level of crimes are being committed. It would only show you what level of crimes are being caught. Assuming a random sampling is certainly problematic as there is strong evidence of bias. Take for instance racial profiling:

The idea behind it was that blacks committed a higher percentage of crimes, so if a police officer has two suspicious people (one white, one black) fleeing the scene of a crime and can only chase one of them they go after the black guy. There are several possibilities for what actually happened here:

Case (i): The black guy did it. They likely catch him and prosecute.

Case (ii): The white guy did it. He escapes the initial scene, and chances are somewhat poor that they track him down to catch him and prosecute.

Case (iii): They were accomplices. The black guy likely gets caught and is prosecuted. He may or may not turn over his accomplices.

So if you have a police force that responds to a chase scene in this way, you would have bias in your data. The white guy is far more likely to not be caught for this crime than the black guy.