@RealCandaceO Been doing some of my own research, and I'd love your input.

TLDR: Looking for data that answers either of these questions...

Does generational poverty increase criminality
or does
generational criminality increase poverty?

Fact: There were more white people shot to death by the police in the United States from 2017 to 2021.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/

Fact: The rate of fatal police shootings of Black Americans in the United States from 2015 to March 2021 was disproportionately higher.
35 per million vs 14 per million (almost double) despite population disparity.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123070/police-shootings-rate-ethnicity-us/

Fact: According to the US department of justice the adult arrest rate in 2019 showed that per 100,000 people arrested 7081.9 were black and 3283.9 were white. Again, almost double.
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/ucr.asp?table_in=2&selYrs=2019&rdoGroups=3&rdoData=r

Simply put, the rate of black Americans to white Americans being killed by police offers (2.5 to 1) and the rate of arrest of black Americans to white Americans (2.17 to 1) is unsurprisingly similar.

Logically it makes sense that those involved in more arrests/police encounters would have a higher rate of fatal police shootings.
It would be alarming if the rate of white shootings was 0. But it's not. It's almost exactly proportionate to the arrest rate.

However, I also understand that crime does not exist in a vacuum. So I would like to know, why is there a disproportionate amount of black Americans being arrested per year RESULTING in a disproportionate amount of black Americans being fatally shot by police?

If you want to say the justice system just has it out for black people, unfortunately, that argument doesn't apply here. This data is based simply on arrests, not jury bias or sentencing.

And oddly enough, the only offense on the 2019 arrests list with strikingly similar numbers (414.4 white offenders to 418.2 black offenders) is the only offense that involves being pulled over by the police. Driving under the influence.

So here's my point...

Maybe black Americans commit more crimes and it's not their fault. Maybe it is society's fault, poverties fault, oppressions fault, racism's fault, white peoples fault.

But every good argument requires proof.

Could there be a group of people out there on this earth who are also "oppressed into poverty" but don't commit crime at twice the rate of other communities?

This is the kind of data I'm looking for.

And if oppression is truly the reason black Americans are stuck in poverty and forced into crime then wouldn't it be impossible for ANY black American to escape that cycle?
If it was truly out of the hands of the individual, wouldn't there be no African American success stories?

@RealCandaceO Any data or resources you can point me to?