Related to that, I remember some schmuck on the subreddit for my city posting his personal grad school thesis about false arrest rates in response to the typical 52% quip as was common at the time. Black people in the lead at about 40%. I asked if this was representative of the entire population of wrongful arrests or if it was the percentage of arrests of those races that were wrongfully arrested and he said it was based on the total population of wrongfully arrested. Since the sample of that population should conceivably be the same distribution of the total population of those arrested, the fact that black people came in at a smaller percentage than the total of those arrested meant that their arrest was more likely to stick than that of whites who had a higher percentage in the wrongfully arrested bracket. And this was a grad school thesis that was defended successfully, specifically about "racism in the justice system".

Related to that, I remember some schmuck on the subreddit for my city posting his personal grad school thesis about false arrest rates in response to the typical 52% quip as was common at the time. Black people in the lead at about 40%. I asked if this was representative of the entire population of wrongful arrests or if it was the percentage of arrests of those races that were wrongfully arrested and he said it was based on the total population of wrongfully arrested. Since the sample of that population should conceivably be the same distribution of the total population of those arrested, the fact that black people came in at a smaller percentage than the total of those arrested meant that their arrest was more likely to stick than that of whites who had a higher percentage in the wrongfully arrested bracket. And this was a grad school thesis that was defended successfully.

Related to that, I remember some schmuck on the subreddit for my city posting his personal grad school thesis about false arrest rates in response to the typical 52% quip as was common at the time. Black people in the lead at about 40%. I asked if this was representative of the entire population of wrongful arrests of if it was just the percentage of arrests of those races that were wrongfully arrested and he said it was based on the total population of wrongfully arrested. Since the sample of that population should conceivably be the same distribution of the total population of those arrested, the fact that black people came in at a smaller percentage than the total of those arrested meant that their arrest was more likely to stick than that of whites who had a higher percentage in the wrongfully arrested bracket. And this was a grad school thesis that was defended successfully.