Racial Equity Report Cards (Youth Justice Project, August 2016) Racial and Ethnic Disparities and the Relative Rate Index (RRI) Summary of Data in Multnomah County (Safety and Justice Challenge) Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2015 (Prison Policy Initiative, December 8, 2015) Race and Mass Incarceration (Parr Center for Ethics-UNC Chapel Hill, November 30, 2015) Ian Mance Presents at Code for America Summit (Southern Coalition for Social Justice, November 6, 2015) Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Traffic Stops in North Carolina, 2000-2011: Examining the Evidence (NC Association of Chiefs of Police) NC Traffic Stops (Frank Baumgartner, Department of Political Science, UNC Chapel Hill) Percentage of Traffic Stops Leading to a Search by Race, Gender, and Age Group Durham, NC. 2002-2013. (August 20, 2014)
RACIAL PROFILING IN DURHAM (January 22, 2014 Southern Coalition for Social Justice Presentation to the Durham Human Relations Commission)
NC Prison Population Data (NCAJ Task Force on Racial & Ethnic Disparities, June 2011)
NC Habitual Felon Prison Population Data (NCAJ Task Force on Racial & Ethnic Disparities, June 2011)
NC Drug Prison Population Data (NCAJ Task Force on Racial & Ethnic Disparities, June 2011)
Traffic Stop Statistics Analysis (NCAJ Task Force on Racial & Ethnic Bias February 2012 Report)
Striving for Equity in Criminal Justice: An Analysis of Variability of Bail Bonds in the Tenth Judicial District of North Carolina (Johanna Hawfield Foster)
Arrest Data Analysis Tool (US Bureau of Justice Statistics)
Traffic Stop Data Reports (NC Department of Justice)
Criminal Justice Fact Sheet (NAACP)
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STATISTICS OF INTEREST (As of December 2013):
- Percentage of African Americans of US population: 13%*
- Percentage of African Americans of US prison population: 38%*
- Percentage of African Americans on death row in 2011: 42%**
- One in three black men will go to prison at some point in their lives**
- Percentage of African Americans of juvenile arrests: 32%**
- Percentage of African Americans who are regular drug users: 13%*
- Percentage of African Americans who are arrested for drug offenses: 38%*
- Percentage of African Americans in prison as drug offenders: 45%**
- Percentage of the African American population who have lost the right to vote as a result of a felony conviction: 8%**
- Percentage of other racial groups who have lost the right to vote as a result of a felony conviction: 2%**
- 11 states deny the right to vote to more than 10% of their African American citizens because of felony convictions*
- African American former inmates’ wages grow at a 21% slower rate than white former inmates’ wages*
Sources:
*Michael Scherer and Elizabeth Dias, After Trayvon, TIME, July 29, 2013, at 34 (sidebar). **Michele Norris, One Dream, TIME, August 26, 2013, at 74 (sidebar).