You're literally just describing a chicken-and-egg problem. Curious what your brain thinks is the reason African-American communities are policed more intensely. Surely every police organization in the United States is just racist.
At the very least, this suggests that police in NYC and probably elsewhere were disproportionately singling out Black (and Latinos) for intrusive searches without evidence and on a pretextual basis.
So, every police institution? I’m sure there are exceptions, but there’s enough of a preponderance to safely assume it and the data bears that out.
Well, there's personal racism, meaning personal prejudice against a race. But then there's also institutional racism, like policies that turn out to be racist. Racist policies can be blatantly racist, like redlining, or they may indirectly turn out to be racist.
But yes, I think institutional racism is fairly common and very well-documented in the US.
> You're literally just describing a chicken-and-egg problem.
If you want to understand this more deeply, I highly recommend Ta-Nehisi Coates' book "Between the World and Me".
Yes, it's a chicken and egg problem, but our police and judicial institutions are actively sustaining/aggravating the problem.