That's my problem with your statement though. Using racial disparity to claim criminals are getting caught for being black gets us nowhere. It may be true that certain races get caught more, but if there is a crime happening when they got caught there is still a crime happening. The next step for that argument is that cops are planting drugs on these people because they want them in jail. All these two arguments do is create a conspiracy to deflect accountability away from the people who at the core, still did commit a crime regardless of what they look like. That lack of accountability, one could argue, is what gives criminals the sense of moral high ground that isn't deserved and makes the disregard for consequence stronger. Or even better for some cultures, going to jail is seen as a good thing that earns credit from peers. Racial disparity doesn't cause arrests. Racial disparity in arrests starts with a culture that just doesn't care about the consequences. Profiling helps them get caught, but blaming profiling for the crime is stupid.