Arrests do not affect all communities equally
As April through June 2017 arrest data shows, when compared to their relative local populations, a greater proportion of New Orleans’s black residents were arrested than their white counterparts. Men of all races and ethnicities were booked at a rate of 23 per 1,000 adult men in New Orleans. However, black men were booked more than twice as frequently as white men; 33 for every 1,000 black men in New Orleans versus 14 for every 1,000 white men in New Orleans. Women of all races and ethnicities were booked at a rate of six per 1,000 in New Orleans, nearly one-fourth the rate of all men. The arrest rate for black women was eight per 1,000 adult black women residents—more than twice as high as that for white women (three per 1,000 adult white women residents).