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Aspects of patterns of offending have changed over time, for example cheque fraud is now almost unheard of, violent crime has (if one takes the datum point of say 1550) fallen massively while other forms of offences have only recently emerged.

Within the overall pattern certain groups are by a magnitude more like to be involved in certain types of offending: off the top of my head these would include, modern slavery, PWITS / supply / being concerned in the supply Class A, cultivation of cannabis, gang related child sexual exploitation and terrorism to name serious assaults / homicides with knives.

I would suggest that these are not down to economic factors but do accept that there are some social / societal factors at play.

That between two comparable groups one might see a huge disparity between outcomes suggests that the disparity is not due to the vagaries of the system but some other cause.

To describe the discrepancies int he outcomes of the police / judicial system as due to some bias is on the face of it a clear example of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.