Also, for some inexplicable reason, Grandmothers may not be a drug dealer s first choice for enforcer or drug runner. But, the point is that there are many social causes that explain the action of the police that have nothing to do with bias. The simple fact is that grandmothers don t commit as many street crimes as young people do. Social scientists have been arguing the cause of this forever. But, the most obvious reason for the disparity is that poverty is also not distributed evenly through society.
Blacks are poorer and less educated than their white counterparts.
Therefore, like their Irish and Italian immigrant predecessors, they commit more crime than the general population. This is significant because when police officers respond to crimes, they look for the offenders who are described to them by witnesses. On the other hand, frequently the other Part I crimes of theft, burglary and car theft have no witnesses. Cops are simply investigating the people who are being described to them as offenders. The responding officers are certainly not going to randomly stop people in the surrounding area.