I’m so sick of the idea that arrest rates and incarceration rates should meet some kind of exact match to the overall population percentage. That is not reasonable for a very specific reason: Different ethnic groups don’t commit crimes in the same proportion to their percentage of the population.
I’m fairly certain that the statistics reported by King County likely reflect an arrest rate that is lower than the actual crime rate.
Lars Larson likes to break it down by gender...two of them. Says it isn’t fair that more men than women are in prison.
That idea is the central foundation of Critical Race Theory.
Any "disparate outcome" (like more Black arrests than white arrests) is PROOF of white racism.
Get woke? Go broke!
Release of such data is propagandist. It’s designed to inflame passions and advocate for a view that isn’t actually represented by this data. Without digging into the underlying facts you don’t know if there’s an actual racism issue or if it’s a community cultural issue. I suspect there might be common themes in the demographic backgrounds of those arrested regardless of race. That won’t predetermined outcomes though.
I suspect unstable family units, lack of a positive sense of community connection, employment stability, drug use in the home, educational engagement and poverty are risk factors for arrests but that’s not going to be determinative. Tolerance within the community for petty crimes or even violent crimes is probably a noticeable factor. That’s cultural.
Those are my theories. There are always outliers though. It’s not as simple as saying this group are more prone to arrest due to racist police with a naive data dump like this