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In general, POC are more likely to be arrested for committing a crime.

The parent's point isn't about whether they are acquitted, it's that if you were to commit a crime as a POC, you are more likely to be arrested than if you had committed that same crime as a non-POC. In both scenarios you committed a crime, but in one of them the system never has a record of it. This is why arrest rates and crime rates are different: if a POC is more likely to get arrested for committing a crime, the arrest rates by race (POCs get arrested more) will not reflect the crime rates by race (differences are generally smaller).



Most empirical data indicates that white people are arrested and convicted at a higher rate relative to basal offense rate than black people.


Post your sources. I've seen otherwise (especially for low level drug offenses) but you're the one making the claim.




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