When you look at those statistics on a per capita basis it helps to explain why there are disproportionate representations of various ethnic groups who end up having confrontations with police, or who are incarcerated. During that time period, blacks made up approximately 12% of the population, while whites made up 60%. A group who only makes up 12% of the population committed twice as many murders as a group who is 5 times larger. The reason that the percentage of black people who find themselves being confronted by the police, or put into prison is higher than their representation in society isn’t because of “systemic racism”, it is because of of a higher rate of criminal behavior.