Disproportionate results
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Racially disproportionate results or outcomes are differences out of proportion to the ratio of the races in a population. Often the difference in proportions is considered to be proof of discrimination. One report called it an "alarming ... problem", citing "evidence of a pervasive and systematic bias".[1] Heather Mac Donald attributes disparate outcomes of arrests or shootings to higher rates of crime and violence:
- ... as long as crime rates are so disproportionate, policing will be more intense in minority neighborhoods, increasing the chances that when an encounter goes awry, it will have a minority victim.[2]