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Here is some data from the FBI, from 2013, with arrest percentages by race for a variety of crimes (https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43). The data I've listed here comes from Table 43A.StatGuy2000 said:(another, much more negative explanation could be that more black and Hispanic teenagers are being incarcerated due to discriminatory policing, and thus are being pulled out of the labour market -- admittedly, I don't have evidence for this, but just putting it out there as speculation).
##\begin{array}{ccc}
~ & \text{White} & \text{Black/African American}\\
\text{Murder,nonnegligent manslaughter} & 45.3 & 52.2 \\
\text{Rape} & 45.3 & 52.2 \\
\text{Robbery} & 41.9 & 56.4 \\
\text{Aggravated assault} & 62.9 & 33.9 \\
\text{Burglary} & 67.5 & 30.4
\end{array}##
I did not include American Indians/Alaskan Natives or Asians, whose arrest percentages are almost all below 2% for all crimes listed, nor did I include Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, whose arrest percentages are all 0.1% or below.
Hispanics are not included by race - there is a separate section in this table for Hispanic vs. Non-hispanic.
Focusing on black/African Americans, the arrest rates for violent crimes I listed above are disproportionately high for a group that makes up about 12% of the population. It is disingenuous, IMO, to say that a certain group is being incarcerated due to discriminatory policing.