> How would it? Prosecutors decide who to prosecute based on available evidence. You answered your own question! > we already have statistics on which groups

> How would it? Prosecutors decide who to prosecute based on available evidence. You answered your own question! > we already have statistics on which groups get sent to jail over minor crimes, and which ones get slaps on wrists I think you will find those statistics correlate almost exactly to income and only overlap race because there is also a correlation between income and race in the US. So without video that is hard evidence of actual racism (eg. arresting blacks and ignoring whites committing the same crime) we have to do a two-step mental trick to get to the racism. Poor people that are arrested can't afford lawyers (or good lawyers) and have worse outcomes. Black people tend to be poorer than Whites, so the courts are racist! I believe it would be a different case altogether if you had "actual" direct proof (ie. video that could be counted and compared to outcomes), not just correlational proof that involves a lot of other noise that may or may not be racism or that is a couple of steps removed.