#blacklivesmatter racism is a human problem

This might be a completely honest post but it absolutely reeks of sealioning. However I'll take it as an honest post by someone who hasn't done any of the reading, yet.

I think there's a disproportionate amount of information/statistics
relating to the treatment/outcomes of BAME population compared to true
investigation and conversation around the "Why?"

There isn't. There are decades worth of research and writing investigating the subject, and dozens of current podcasts covering the topic.

Why are BAME citizens 3.5 times more likely to be 'stopped and
searched'? Is it because the police force are inherently racist?

Yes.

Why are they inherently racist?

Simplistically because the Police force have only ever been there to protect the white status quo.

What proportion of BAME and non-BAME stop and search subjects are
arrested/cautioned? Surely that's a much better indicator of
criminality, no?

No. Unless you plan to stop and search literally every person in the country bias (racism) will skew the results.

Are there links between race and levels/types of crime? If so, let's
investigate what and why and do something about it.

Yes. As above, it has been investigated. Poverty plays a much more significant factor in crime statistics, and poverty affects BAME populations significantly more than white because, you guess it, systemic racism. (See also gerrymandering, redlining, ghettoisation etc)

In short literally all of these questions are not new, they have been heavily discussed by a wealth of black researchers, educators, and journalists. You don't have to search very hard at all to find multiple sources that would dissect all of these in as much detail as you care to know.

Generally this thread is embarrassingly full of white hand wringing. I'm glad there's a lot of diversification in people's reading, and that we're all trying to get to become more educated and nuanced about the BLM movement but it means fuck all if we're not willing to act on it.

I read a very brief thing the other day about being an ally isn't good enough. It's not good enough to just go away and read and educate ourselves. We have to become accomplices, willing to walk the line, back up, and stand up for black people everywhere.

This means not asking a black person what you can do to help because that information is already out there. It means you will do the wrong the thing under good intentions and be checked for it. Learn when our voice is necessary, and learn when it's not. But don't feel good about yourselves because you've read two Zadie Smith novels, and Remi Eddo-Lodge.

This is as much to me as it is to every other white person on this forum.