JUST IN: Black people were arrested at a rate five times higher than white people in 800 jurisdictions in 2018, after accounting for localities' demographics, according to an ABC analysis of data from thousands of U.S. police departments.
last month, questions about whether police officers treat black people differently than their white counterparts have taken on a new urgency.
It does not include data from police departments in Florida or Illinois -- or the New York Police Department, the country's largest police force -- which do not report demographic data on arrests to the FBI. It also excludes police departments serving cities with fewer than five black residents.According to Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the National Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the data reveals a"pervasive problem.
Clarke said she doesn't buy the idea that the arrest numbers are high because there's a lot of crime in some black communities. She says the black community is treated differently.
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