Part of this is simple.
These together "help" make crime overall higher among blacks.
So part of the targeting is simply that police know, from experience and fairly impartial statistics, that they are more likely to find something criminal among blacks.
Pretty much like doctors are more concerned about blood pressure and Diabetes among fat people than skinny people.
If you want to find something, you look where it's common, not where it's rare.
Other parts are tricky:
One tricky bit is that all this can be influenced by prejudice or force of habit too.
If it's always more blacks that are checked, then you'll find more crime among blacks.
Not b/c they have more criminals, but b/c more are found.
If non-blacks aren't checked, then non-black crimes aren't discovered.
It's just like the doctors.
Skinny people get high blood pressure and diabetes too.
And may go undetected for years because they don't look like the ones usually needing the check-up.
When it comes to blacks and police, it's hard to tell exactly how much of the targeting that's unfair, and how much that's statistically sensible.
As mentioned, If the method starts out lopsided, it'll be self-reinforcing and build itself even more lopsided.
Running a police force does cost money, and telling them to distribute their attention according to the ethnic proportions would perhaps be fair, but probably also a waste of money.
Again, if you want to find something, you look where it's common, not where it's rare.
Specially if you have to pay the one doing the looking.
But in a democratic society, we can decide that. Get enough voters behind a plan to make police attention evenly ethnically distributed, find the money for it and go ahead.
Either way, the basis of the legal system is "innocent until proven guilty". This is valid even for members of high-risk groups.
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