Originally Posted by Scissors
This is called an "anecdote" and does not even rate as the lowest form of evidence. It falls squarely in the category of "not evidence" along with gut feelings and "my buddy said".
Did you consider that perhaps physical attributes make it move obvious that certain people are definitely Black as compared to whether or not others are definitely Jewish? Did you consider the effects of regional distribution across the U.S. and the variations in opportunities (or lack thereof)? And, again, outliers don't disprove trends. The trend amongst people without means is that they can't pay for better legal defenses, that they have more contacts with law enforcement due to unequal distribution of police forces, that the lack of wealth means they have less to lose--promoting participation in illegal (but not necessarily wrong) activities.
The war on drugs wasn't kicked off with claims that "Jewish men will rape your women." So don't try to pretend the two groups were treated the same. Anti-Semitism is also wrong, but the degree of oppression was not equal between Jews and Blacks in the U.S. at that time.
If this were the case, you would see the rate of homicides committed by police increase with years of experience, after controlling for age.
But let's take your question to its logical conclusion. If cops "go rogue" and become bad because they're dealing with "sheet bags", and those "sheet bags" are presumably mostly Blacks (as per your original post), wouldn't that also mean that the same effect would cause Blacks to "go rogue" and become bad? After all, they're dealing with those same people? So if what you ask were true, why should cops get a pass for their actions stemming from the same cause, but Blacks should not?
Let's also not forget that law enforcement is a job. Unlike being Black, you choose it. This means, by definition, it will draw a certain personality type. It should come as no surprise, then, that a sworn officer is 16.5 times more likely to commit homicide than a Black person. It's even more sad because they often lament about how dangerous their jobs are, but they don't even make the top 10--they're way behind airline pilots, roofers, and taxi drivers.
For the many reasons I already listed, and others. Remember that immigrants bring with them the cultural norms of their source country, including the types of jobs they tend to choose, and differences in how their communities operate. And, again, their race is in a general sense obvious from their physical attributes, so you still wind up with the effects of how others treat them based on their own biases and beliefs.
Even today, study after study shows that a resume with a name that "sounds Black" is significantly more likely to be rejected than an identical resume with a name that sounds White or Asian.
The simple fact is that how successful a group can be on average is controlled, in part, by how other groups perceive them.
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