There are a couple of ways to look at the statistics about whites and blacks getting arrested. We can believe that more blacks than whites commit crimes, or we can believe more blacks get arrested because they are black.
When my son Karl was eight years old he was arrested for trespassing on the lawn of a man in the neighboring town. They booked him, took a mugshot and put him in jail overnight. When I asked why he was arrested, I was told to keep him out of their town. This was 1978.
The day Karl turned 21 he was drinking a beer in front of his dorm at U.C. Berkeley. The policed handed out tickets to his white friends. Karl said, "I am 21; I can drink." They pulled him out of the crowd, threw him onto the ground, handcuffed him and beat him with a baton. He was in the hospital for two days.
When Karl was 25 he got in an argument with two white men. He called the police for help. They arrested Karl and let the others go. The case was thrown out of court, but I never got my bail money back.
When my son was 26 he was on his way home from work. He was a probation officer. He talked to a girl on the street and she gave him her phone number. When she got home her father was angry at her for being late so she told him Karl had detained her against her will. Karl had a trial and was found not guilty.
I could go on, because there is more, but I am trying to explain that not all black people being arrested deserved to be arrested. So I don't really trust the statistics or the police.
As for the "system." Even though he was acquitted for kidnapping he lost his job, his real estate license, and his teaching credential. He ended up becoming self-employed as a paralegal because he could not get a job after than.
That's a different issue all together. Karl and I could swap stories for sure.
If you read what you wrote, you said more blacks are arrested than white. Statistically, that's not true.
What is true, is a higher percentage of the black population is arrested when you compare their percentage against the percentage of white people arrested.
What I don't like is when the media says what you've said, because it's not true.
What the media doesn't tell you is that crime rates are higher in black communities than they are in white communities which is why a higher percentage of blacks are arrested than whites. Again, the key is "percentage" of an ethnic population.
Here is another thing. There will always be bad cops. In my teens and early 20's I had hair down the middle of my back. At 21 I stopped doing drugs and rarely drank. Yet I would get pulled over and have my car searched. Why? Because I looked like a hoodlum.
Profiling exists, and we are all guilty of judging somebody by their looks. Jesus warns us about showing partiality, because it's a human trait within our sinful nature. As Christians, we are to take those sinful thoughts captive.
Sadly, not every police officer is a Christian and for some that are, they continue to willfully sin in this area believing grace will cover their sin.
In other words, there are bad cops out there, and I've had the bruises to know there are bad cops out there. But percentage wise, most are good honest folk.
Just like the media wants you to believe more black people are killed or arrested by police than white people ( not true) , the also want you to believe more cops are bad than good. ( Not true).
