“Is institutional racism in the justice system? No, blacks are convicted of more crimes.”

this is a fantastic oversimplification/misrepresentation of the posts theme. it implied, and writefully so, that there is a direct positive correlation between frequency of crime committed by black people and the proportions of incarcerated black people. taking a “that doesn’t prove causation” position fails to acknowledge the relevance of the data and the very real possibility that black people commiting proportionately more crime is a substantial cause of the incaceration numbers.
“conviction rates” are very different from crime rates and/or arrest rates. if we want to speculate about the degree to which these are influenced by racial bias, wouldn’t we examine the races of those wrongfully convicted and then look for disproportions compared with arrest or alleged/believed infraction?

“Is institutional racism in the justice system? No, blacks are convicted of more crimes.”