J. R. Woodgates

Black defendants are 15% more likely than white defendants to be imprisoned for misdemeanor offenses and drug offenses, and 14% more likely than their white counterparts to be imprisoned for felony drug offenses, according to a July 2014 study.

New York City’s police chief says so many young blacks have arrest records, it’s hard to find qualified recruits for the NYPD.  Others fault the chief’s own stop-and-frisk procedures that criminalized harmless behavior:

NYPD LOOKS FOR A FEW GOOD BLACK MEN