by Jared Taylor

About the author: Jared Taylor is president of the New Century Foundation and editor of American Renaissance, a conservative monthly newsletter.

“A black youth is six times more likely to be locked up than a white peer, even when charged with a similar crime and when neither has a record. . . .” So began an April 25 Associated Press news story picked up uncritically by dozens of papers including the Washington Post that helped feed a wave of national breast-beating over the unfairness of the juvenile justice system. The story was about a report put out by a San Francisco organization called Building Blocks for Youth, which claimed to “document the cumulative disadvantage of minority youth” in the face of a biased system.

But is the system really that bad? Are...