Reason.com has an article about Child Protective Services overreach in Maricopa County, AZ, the headline of which is:

In One Arizona County, Child Protective Services Will Eventually Investigate Two-Thirds of Black Children
A staggeringly high number of families are subject to child abuse and neglect investigations in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Emma Camp | 12.20.2022

It’s actually 63 percent, which could be described as three-fifths rather than two-thirds. The real surprise is that one-third (33 percent) of white kids will be investigated. Both may be government overreach, but given the difference in crime rates, there’s no reason why blacks shouldn’t be investigated almost twice as much.

Of the dozens of parents ProPublica and NBC News interviewed, ”almost all described a system so omnipresent among Black families that it has created a kind of communitywide dread… Many expressed disbelief that it was so easy for the state government to enter their family realm and potentially remove their kids from them.”

The investigation found that between 2015 and 2019, Maricopa County had the highest rate of child safety investigations into black children among the 20 largest U.S. counties. But only 2 percent of Maricopa County kids whose families ”were accused of child maltreatment from 2015 to 2019 were ultimately determined or suspected by caseworkers to be victims of any form of physical or sexual abuse following an investigation.” While the national average for child protective services investigations is already high—one-third of all children are expected to be investigated by the time they reach adulthood nationwide—DCS investigations in Maricopa County disproportionately affect black children.

In Maricopa County, Arizona, the Department of Child Safety investigates 63 percent of black children by the time they turn 18. https://t.co/UeXhBqbPvv

— reason (@reason) December 20, 2022

Maricopa County has some big cities in it, and 590,000 blacks, which is 10 percent of its 5.9 million population of all races.

A search for ”mother kills child az” produces a lot more than one out of ten black mothers—and surprisingly, one Japanese immigrant.

This is  Yui Inoue, called an ”Arizona Mom” in the headline, but actually a ”Japan Mom”—she spoke in court through a Japanese interpreter  [Arizona mom accused of killing her 2 young kids with meat cleaver was under investigation for child safety, AP-KTLA, May 18, 2021].

This is Jerice Hunter, and her daughter Jhessye Shockley. Jhessye’s body has never been found, and Jerice said she was ”missing,” i.e. wandered off, but Jerice is doing ”natural life” in prison for her murder.

This is Octavia Rogers, and her three children, deceased. She apparently stabbed them all fatally, and then tried and failed to kill herself.

See Phoenix family decries capital case for Octavia Rogers in slayings of 3 young sons, by Logan Newman, The Republic, February 9,  2017.

This is Retta Cruse, below right. She was worried she’d lose custody of her daughters, Aleyah McIntyre, 9, and Royal McIntyre, 4, below left, so she gave them a lethal overdose of drugs.

She’s doing two life sentences.

And yes, there are white cases, but black people in general are much more than twice as likely to commit murder than whites, so while Child Protective overreach may be a problem, the racial gap is not due to prejudice on the part of the Arizona authorities.