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Black residents in New Jersey have long complained that they bear the brunt of unequal policing practices. Now, a new trove of data backs up the complaint.

But the racial disparities in police use of restraints, punches, kicks and other types of force vary widely depending on your local police department.

Statewide, a black person in New Jersey is three times more likely to be subjected to force than a white person, according to an analysis of five years of police use-of-force reports, which are required to be filed any time an officer uses any kind of force.

Even when you account for the fact that black people are arrested at a greater rate than white people, they are still 38 percent more likely to be subjected to police force.

To see the racial disparity in your town, we calculated the percent a black person is more or less likely to face force compared to someone who is white, based on reports filed by local police departments from 2012 through 2016. The map can be viewed based on population, or more narrowly based only on those who were arrested.

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We are continuing to make this dataset better. The numbers in this story were last updated Jan. 8, 2019. See the changes we’ve made here.