>Blackness is not a predictor of criminality, even though black people are more likely to have been in environments that lead to criminality. And your logic is

>Blackness is not a predictor of criminality, even though black people are more likely to have been in environments that lead to criminality. And your logic is that of nonsensical political correctness. You concede that these environments are more likely to lead to criminality, you conceded that black people are more likely to exist in these environments, yet you refuse to see that if A->B and B->C then A->C. Let's instead consider, since you do allow that race is predictive of previous criminality, if the circumstances which have created increased chance for previous criminality have not changed, why is it invalid to presume that the same predictors are then valid for future probability? Do you also pretend that credit scores are not statistically accurate predictors of repayment potential? These kinds of mental gymnastics are detrimental for all parties involved.