I don't disagree that american policing practices are horrible and a significant number of racist police officers will cause the data to be skewed and that woul

I don't disagree that american policing practices are horrible and a significant number of racist police officers will cause the data to be skewed and that would cause AI trained on that data to be skewed aswell. What I am rejecting is that the underlying "true" data wouldn't show differences between different races. Again, tax fraud is likely commited to a much higher degree and in much higher numbers by white people (especially investment bankers). An AI wouldn't be racist to predict a higher likelyhood of a white man commiting it than a black woman. But somehow predicting a higher likelyhood of violent crime by a black male (especially if they receive wellfare) is racist because it must be so, even if the underlying data shows this to be correct. My argument is simple, if your statistics contains racial data, either directly or transitively, than you will find statistical differences between them. It becomes a racism issue if the polices based on that data are racist, i.e. harsher sentences for the same crime etc.