Major Findings
• The evidence suggests that if there is police racial bias in arrests it is negligible. Vic
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tim and witness surveys show that police arrest violent criminals in close proportion to therates at which criminals of different races commit violent crimes.• There are dramatic race differences in crime rates. Asians have the lowest rates, fol
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lowed by whites, and then Hispanics. Blacks have notably high crime rates. This patternholds true for virtually all crime categories and for virtually all age groups.• In 2013, a black was six times more likely than a non-black to commit murder, and 12times more likely to murder someone of another race than to be murdered by someone ofanother race.• In 2013, of the approximately 660,000 crimes of interracial violence that involvedblacks and whites, blacks were the perpetrators 85 percent of the time. This meant a blackperson was 27 times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa. A Hispanic waseight times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa.• In 2014 in New York City, a black was 31 times more likely than a white to be ar
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rested for murder, and a Hispanic was 12.4 times more likely. For the crime of “shoot
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ing”—dened as ring a bullet that hits someone—a black was
98.4 times
more likely thana white to be arrested, and a Hispanic was 23.6 times more likely.