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People are saying the system is racist. Surely that means that information generated by the system is also going to be influenced by that racism? If we over-p
by DanBC 6y ago
People are saying the system is racist.
Surely that means that information generated by the system is also going to be influenced by that racism?
If we over-police, over-charge, over-prosecute, and over-convict one group of people then the system will generate "facts" that tell us this group of people commit more crime. Obviously we don't know if that group of people do commit more crime because we're relying on broken data.
- Udik 6y agoIt's a good hypothesis, but don't you think it should be tested? It's not enough to vaguely propose a possible alternative explanation for the numbers, you should also check whether it's right. Missing more data, the null hypothesis is that crime rate among Aboriginals is actually higher (which in turn doesn't mean anything racist, as it can have myriad explanations that only correlate with race).