"For instance, data shows that the percentage of young men not working or not enrolled in school is nearly twice as high for blacks as it is for whites. This initiative, and others like it, is about doing the hard work to develop violence-resistant and drug-resistant kids, especially in communities of color, so they never become part of that officer’s life experience"

It's hard to read this any other way then "The criminality of African Americans means police excesses are understandable. What's a police officer to do, when he sees it's always black people committing crimes?"