Mandatory SSC post going into more detail than anyone probably wants to on the actual statistics of this stuff: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/25/race-and-j

Mandatory SSC post going into more detail than anyone probably wants to on the actual statistics of this stuff: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/25/race-and-justice-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/25/race-and-justice-much-m... TLDR: "There seems to be a strong racial bias in capital punishment and a moderate racial bias in sentence length and decision to jail. There is ambiguity over the level of racial bias... There seems to be little or no racial bias in arrests for serious violent crime, police shootings in most jurisdictions, prosecutions, or convictions."