Let's explore your question from two angles:
When a black police chief hired in Camden, NJ eliminated racial data from their profiling system (a good thing since "skin color" does not cause crime), it turned out the same black neighborhoods were selected as locations to deploy more police officers then middle-class white neighborhoods. Was the black police chief racist or were crime rates simply higher in poor black communities producing disproportionate arrests?
Here are some interesting stats from Bing's AI
"According to one source, the age-standardised mortality rate due to police violence was highest in non-Hispanic Black people (0.69 per 100 000), followed by Hispanic people of any race (0.35), non-Hispanic White people (0.20), and non-Hispanic people of other races (0.15) in the USA from 1980 to 2018. " In other words, non-Hispanic white people are more likely experience death at the hands of police then non-Hispanic black people, once you adjust for age (why age, because young men especially tend to be more aggressive producing more violent encounters when confronted by police).
Yet, another study establishes your assertion, that on average blacks report more negative experiences with police including being stopped, searched, and mistreated. But that needs to be contrasted with the study that shows, blacks on average are poorer, younger, and for various reasons commit a disproportionately share of violent crimes (the murder rate among blacks is 653% than the murder rate among whites, with most murders being same race murders).
The Washington Post reported that blacks while representing 13% of the population account for 43% of the assailants that "ambushed" police. Would you argue their skin color made them do it?
Finally, surveys of blacks in poor communities overwhelmingly support a greater police presence or the same police presence versus less. This suggests that overall, the feel police are making their communities safer, not endangering them.
So many studies are produced these days that twist statistics to support "racism" and it is true, that if you look at correlations that blacks commit more crimes and police have more encounters with blacks.
My guess is you would agree with me that black skin does not "cause" blacks to commit more crimes, but other factors including age, poverty, and inner-city gang culture, among others are the real causes of those differences.
It is time for the sake of the nation, that we deploy the resources we have in this country to study the issue from a less bias perspective without any predisposition towards an outcome. Real solutions are not going to come from those yelling "racism", but finding out what are the real causes of the disproportionate outcomes that blacks have with police and focusing on those you can change. Some like the much younger ages of black men vs white men may not have solutions, but at least we understand the reason.
We should also use technology which can identify individual police officers predisposed to abuse their power or target people based on their skin color and remove them from the police force whether they are white or black. To date police unions have resisted this and yet police officers of all races are subject to this issue.
My brother when he was mayor of Jersey City reduced crime dramatically by positioning police officers on every corner and opening school gyms until 11PM. The first policy discouraged crime by increasing the risk the perpetrator would get caught, the latter policy provided an alternative outlet to young men of all skin colors to the boredom that often results in young people engaging in risky behaviors including crime.
So, you asked a good question, but are you interested as I am in understanding the real issues and building solutions, if so, let's not allow the myth that skin color is the primary driver of the issues you raised and instead address the real issues.
Here is another myth, that people love to quote. Skin color is the reason that a substantial "pay gap" exists between blacks and whites as well as the higher unemployment rate of blacks. Turns out when you adjust for education, blacks have lower unemployment rates and when you adjust for age, region of the country and education, the pay gap evaporates. If you are interested one of the most comprehensive studies done on the racial and gender pay gap is done by a company called PayScale to assist corporations to insure they don't have a pay gap.
The world is not about "us vs them", no matter how much politicians benefit from that divisiveness. There are racists in the world, and they come in all colors, but most people are not racists and as someone who employed 42,000 people at his company, most employers are seeking the best people they can find and to some extent if they lean in any direction, it is to help minorities achieve greater outcomes as part of their diversity goals.
