You say “anecdotes” like that’s all that it is. Telling the story from my personal perspective is a creative choice because it’s a lot more compelling than just rattling off a bunch of stats. Maybe you missed it, but I actually did cite some data within the text and for every assertion I make about a particular phenomenon, there is an inline link to an article or a paper with data backing it up.

What you call “anecdotes and conjecture,” I would call corroboration of an empirically verifiable reality. There’s more than enough data to show that white people and black people use and sell drugs at similar rates but black people are far more likely to be arrested for drug crimes.

Records from court cases and studies by criminal justice reformers on “pretext stops” also show that police tend to manufacture flimsy pretexts to stop and search black drivers, which would explain this racial disparity.

It might be anecdotal that on more than one occasion I have been stopped with drugs and the police didn’t search me though had every reason, but when combined with what the data show, it’s significant.

You say “good people” could get hurt. Good people are getting hurt by racial bias in policing every day, my friend.