The big question here, as with any statistic or analysis, is why the data is what it is. Do police officers see more age in black children because of some faci

The big question here, as with any statistic or analysis, is why the data is what it is. Do police officers see more age in black children because of some facial feature, because of general assumptions, because they're justifying bias? Do they assume that african american children come frome lower incomes, and thus aren't as well-fed as their white peers, leading to the assumption of being older than they look? Or perhaps they're misclassifying children as adults because they're afraid the next Tamir's gun won't be a toy? Above all else, we should not merely assume that it's "just racism" and condemn the cops for their vague crime. If we are to fix the problem, we must understand it thoroughly.