[ddulaney]

In general, POC are more likely to be arrested for committing a crime.

The parent's point isn't about whether they are acquitted, it's that if you were to commit a crime as a POC, you are more likely to be arrested than if you had committed that same crime as a non-POC. In both scenarios you committed a crime, but in one of them the system never has a record of it. This is why arrest rates and crime rates are different: if a POC is more likely to get arrested for committing a crime, the arrest rates by race (POCs get arrested more) will not reflect the crime rates by race (differences are generally smaller).

[reader5000]

Most empirical data indicates that white people are arrested and convicted at a higher rate relative to basal offense rate than black people.

[iterati]

Post your sources. I've seen otherwise (especially for low level drug offenses) but you're the one making the claim.