I'm not going to get into a debate if you're going to appeal to the “actual crime rate” vs the “racially biased arrest rate”. There's not enough data to know, a

I'm not going to get into a debate if you're going to appeal to the “actual crime rate” vs the “racially biased arrest rate”. There's not enough data to know, and too many interacting variables. It's enough for me to accept that blacks represent a disproportional amount of inmates and that black neighborhoods are frequently stuck in poverty cycles. I think the solution actually has nothing to do with correcting variables for race or anything of the sort; rather, help people—regardless of race—out of poverty and the statistics will level out. I'm extremely skeptical that arrest “bias” is skin color related. Also, citation needed for “studies have found that arrests are racially biased”. That is entirely too hard to measure. Well, it's not that I doubt such studies exist, I simply doubt they're valid in any way, and there are probably other studies with the opposite conclusion.