The New York police can’t fight crime and save minority lives without generating disparate stop rates against those same minorities, Heather MacDonald explains:
According to police reports filed by victims of violent crime, blacks committed 66 percent of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009 — and 80 percent of all shootings. Together, blacks and Hispanics committed 98 percent of all shootings. Blacks committed nearly 70 percent of all robberies.
Whites, by contrast, committed 5 percent of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009. They committed 1.8 percent of all shootings, and less than 5 percent of all robberies.
(Hat tip to Foseti.)