Is there data on this that indicates this "design"? If so why do you suppose it's this way?
It would seem to me an area with higher violent crime rates warrant more policing.
There are many neighborhoods I can walk around at night with little worry and there are neighborhoods I would never walk around at night in.
It seems to make better sense to focus police in areas with higher crimes rates.
I am interested in yours or another view on this.
I don't think I agree much with what you're saying, but I believe I could be just plain naive about it. I live in the San Francisco Bay area and have spent plenty of time in "minority neighborhoods" both affluent and poor, white, black, Hispanics and Asian.
So, this is a topic that has a lot of information and a giant post could easily take up an entire page. Obviously, I welcome discourse and if you are really interested in examining a viewpoint you haven't considered, then this can just unfold conversationally, as opposed to a giant information dump. I have posted a lot of this stuff before.
First things first, poverty rates and crime rates are inextricably linked. That's something I've never denied on here. And the poverty rate among blacks is much higher than for the general population. However, people take these facts and distort them into exaggerations that they take for granted as fact. Even with the higher rates of crime and poverty, black=/= criminal, black =/= poor.
* Far and away, most black men who are incarcerated are behind bars on a drug charge. Drug incarceration rates and sentences are ridiculous across races. Since 1985, thanks to the war on drugs incarceration levels for drug offenders have swelled from 41,000 to over half a million. Arrest of blacks have Even though drug charges are ludicrous across races, they disproportionately affect poor and minorities. Multiple studies, some commissioned by government agencies, have concluded that whites are more likely to sell drugs and use drugs (by percentage, not sheer number) but blacks are exponentially more likely to face legal penalties.