“Nobody wants to be the one that sends a black man to prison.”
I don’t know about that; think of all the juries that have sent them to prison, and how many times a single black juror could have refused to find them guilty. Black woman (especially middle-aged and older - often the targets of the rapes/robberies/murders) are terrified of young black men.
My statement is based on talking to other blacks in other forums. They really want young black men to succeed in life and they don’t want any convictions to be a permanent mark on their life, preventing them from becoming something. Because of this, there is a greater tolerance for the wrong doings by young men there than there probably is in the white community.
That does not mean that blacks will necessarily free young black men in trial, if the evidence is strong enough. But it does mean that charging young black men with crimes when they’ve done wrong in their communities is not always the utmost priority all the time.