https://www.nacdl.org/Landing/RacialDisparityRace matters in our criminal legal system. It affects how likely you are to be pulled over by police, how likely you are to be released or detained pretrial, how likely the state is to seek the death penalty, and how severely you are sentenced.
https://www.naacpldf.org/racism-wrongful-convictions-mass-incarceration/
https://library.harvard.edu/confronting-anti-black-racism/criminal-justice