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According to a ACLU report, there is massive racial disparities in the arresting rate of Black people in the way the Washington D.C. police deal with Black and whites. The organization discovered African-Americans are arrested ten times the rate of white people and even more so for minor offenses.

The ACLU’s analysis shows that during 2013 – 2017, Black Americans were 47 % of the population in the nation’s capital but were 86 % of the people police arrested.

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“When you have a disparity of 86 percent of the arrests being black, in a city that’s 47 percent black, that’s not just one or two officers. That’s a systemic problem than needs a systemic solution,” Michael Perloff an attorney with the ACLU of D.C said.

“Even in overwhelmingly white neighborhoods, it was the African Americans who tended to be arrested. “The black population of Kalorama is five percent,” said Perloff. “The black share of arrestees in Kalorama is 44 percent.”

Additionally the report discovered thousands of African-Americans were arrested for non-violent, relatively minor crimes. Finding that of the people arrested for driving without a permit, 78 % of those individual were African-American.

“We don’t think people should be subjected to the terror and humiliation of arrest for something that’s relatively minor. But you should definitely reconsider those arrests when it’s promoting racial bias, when it’s sowing distrust in the community,” Perloff said.

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