Black people are nearly nine times more likely to be arrested for low-level offenses in Minneapolis than white people, while American Indians are also far more likely to be arrested than their white counterparts, according to an analysis of city police data released Thursday.

The study was conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota. It examined 96,975 arrests by the Minneapolis Police Department from Jan. 1, 2012, through Sept. 30, 2014, and focused only on low-level crimes such as minor driving offenses, curfew violations, public consumption or trespassing.

The ACLU found that white people make up 64 percent of the Minneapolis population, but 23 percent of low-level arrests. Black people account for 19 percent of the population and 59 percent of the low-level arrests.

“We’ve become the new South,” said Anthony Newby, executive director of Neighborhoods Organizing for Change in North Minneapolis. “We’ve become the new premier example of how to systematically oppress people of color.”

The Minneapolis Police Department said it was reviewing the report and Chief Janee Harteau planned to address the media Thursday.

Chuck Samuelson, executive director of the ACLU of Minnesota, said the numbers are not surprising, but now “we’re measuring it and we’re making it public, so anybody can see what’s really happening.” The report acknowledges that the Minneapolis Police Department has taken steps to improve disparities, such as encouraging officers to spend more time interacting with the public, but it also says more must be done.

“We believe that fundamentally the tactics need to change, the training needs to change,” Samuelson said. “If you are going to criminalize behavior, then you’ve got to enforce it among everybody. … You need to enforce the laws based on behavior, and not by color.”

Some of the ACLU’s recommendations include: ensuring officers are evaluated in a way that doesn’t reward them for number of arrests, improving department policy that bans racial profiling and keeping data in a format that includes information on all interactions with police — even those that don’t end in arrest.

When looking at young people, the ACLU found that black youths are nearly six times more likely to be arrested for a low-level offense than white youths, while American Indian youths are almost eight times more likely to be arrested than their white peers.

The report said the ACLU tried to analyze data on the city’s Latino population, but ethnicity wasn’t reliably reported in arrest data. The ACLU also tried to collect data about stops of “suspicious persons” that didn’t result in arrests, but the department said it doesn’t systematically collect that information.