In Chicago, black people have historically been arrested at a rate twice as high as white people. Incarceration rates are similar. Though the black and white populations of Chicago have been almost equal since 1968, a large disparity still exists. Even when crime declined, blacks were still arrested more. The police department of Chicago disproportionately arrests black people which indicates a trend of systematic racism.
This sketch shows data I gathered from police reports from 1960s-2010 police annual reports in Chicago. I input the data into an excel spreadsheet which I then applied to a line graph. I'm going to highlight peaks and valleys of the data to show fluctuations in crime as well as influential events in culture and history as the timeline proceeds. Annotations to the graph will add depth to the raw data.
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