Mass incarceration reflects who is labeled criminal, not actual crime rates

Evidence

It also doesn’t help that the media emphasize race more when reporting on black perpetrators than on white ones. Recall Ehrlichman’s goal to “vilify [Black people] night after night on the evening news.” Police routinely target inner-city neighborhoods but ignore places where white Americans do drugs, like Los Angeles’s affluent Westside and the fraternity rows at prestigious universities across the country. Mass incarceration in America is a function of who is seen as a criminal—not a function of crime. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 422

Categorization

• XREF: Directly cited evidence for the saturated-system harm pillar — who is policed, not who offends, drives the racial disparity the reparations case rests on. — connects to: Harsher penal measures show no connection to actual crime rates. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 475
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 422