If police question/detain a black person is it racism?

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Originally Posted by TheCrystalKing

On this subject, however, a very conservative and Republican friend of mine - whose father happens to be a police officer - had something interesting to say: allegedly, in our county, there were statistically more crimes perpetrated by black males than any other demographic, by a considerable margin. Therefore, my friend argued that his father wasn't being racist in taking the occassional conclusional jump against a potential criminal based on race - he was just listening to the statistics.

Those statistics are probably true, but I still don't think cops should assume a suspect is probably guilty just because he's black. At the same time, since those statistics say more black males commit crimes than any other demographic, they should not balk if they are caught doing something, or if a police questions them due to reasonable circumstances - like investigating a break-in. The fault is not with the officer who observes blacks committing more than their fair share of crimes as long as he's not using race alone to determine who's a suspect.