Graphs by PPI staff:

Crime, perceptions of crime and perceptions of crime-fighters

Innocent Latinos and Blacks are more likely than Whites to experience the use of force during a NYC 'stop and frisk' (Created: 2012)
During stops that do not result in an arrest, Blacks are more than 12 times as likely as Whites to experience the use of force during stop & frisks by New York City Police (Created: 2012)
Blacks are almost 12 times as likely as Whites to have force used while being stopped or frisked by the New York City Police (Created: 2012)
New York City's 'stop & frisk' policing consistently focuses on Blacks and Latinos (Created: 2012)
In half million plus stops per year, New York City police discover law of diminishing returns (Created: 2012)
Blacks are more than 8 times as likely as Whites to be stopped by the New York City police (Created: 2012)
New York City's increasing use of "stop & frisk" policing (Created: 2012)
Blacks are 11 times as likely as Whites to be frisked by the New York City Police (Created: 2012)
More handguns means more homicide from handguns (Created: 2012)
The poor, not the rich, are most often the victims of burglary (Created: 2012)
Stand Whose Ground? (Created: 2012)
Growth in the prison population and in citizens' feeling of safety, 1965-2000 (Created: 2003)
Murder rates by race and gender, 1998 (Created: 2003)
Confidence in the police, by race (Created: 2003)
Do the police treat all races fairly?, by race (Created: 2003)
Burglaries per 1,000 households, by income level (Created: 2003)

Death penalty

Executions, 1953-2001 (Created: 2003)
Death row population, 1953-2001 (Created: 2003)

Economics

Salaries for California teachers and correctional officers, 1996 (Created: 2003)
Number of justice system employees, 1982-1999 (Created: 2003)
Minimum wages in the United States, in Haiti and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (Created: 2003)
Criminal justice system expenditures (Created: 2003)
Comparison of size of crime control workforce with farming, forestry and fishing (Created: 2003)
Daily cost to feed prisoners and the average American (Created: 2003)

Incarceration Rates, U.S.

Incarceration rate, 1925-2008 (Created: 2010)
Incarceration rate, 1925-2001 (Created: 2003)

International comparisons

An international incarceration comparison - Blacks in prison in the U.S. and South Africa (Created: 2005)
U.S. general and prisoner population as a percentage of the world (Created: 2003)

Prison-Based Gerrymandering

Maryland and Baltimore City: Population, Prisoners and Prison Cells (Created: 2010)
Connecticut and Hartford: Population, Prisoners and Prison Cells (Created: 2010)
Connecticut and New Haven: Population, Prisoners and Prison Cells (Created: 2010)
Seats per legislator, Marion City Council (Created: 2004)
Number of people per Mansfield Ohio City Council ward (Created: 2004)
Number of people per Marion Ohio City Council Ward (Created: 2004)
Where is New York's incarcerated population? (Created: 2004)
Size of each St. Lawrence County legislative district (Created: 2004)
Prisoner-count based vote dilution in Mansfield Ohio (Created: 2003)
Prisoners per 100,000 residents, emphasizing the low rate through the 1980 U.S. Census (Created: 2003)
New York State: Where is the prison population? (Created: 2002)
Who supplies - and who receives - the prison population? (Created: 1969)

Private Prisons

Private prison population 1987-2001 (Created: 2003)

Race, ethnicity, age, gender & the prison population

Young males incarcerated at very high rates (Created: 2012)
Incarcerated males by race (Created: 2012)
Incarceration rates by gender (Created: 2012)
U.S. incarceration rates by race (Created: 2012)
Males are overrepresented in prisons and jails (Created: 2004)
Racial disparity between U.S. and incarcerated populations (Created: 2004)
Number of prisoners and jail inmates by gender, 2001 (Created: 2003)
Complete illiteracy in the prisoner and general populations (Created: 2003)
Incarceration rates by race and gender, 2000 (Created: 2003)
Juveniles in adult prisons, by race (Created: 2003)
Lifetime chance of incarceration, by race (Created: 2003)
Increases in the African American population in prison and in higher education, 1980-2000 (Created: 2003)
African American male population in higher education and in prison, 2000 (Created: 2003)

Sentencing Enhancement Zones

Disproportionate impact of Massachusetts zone law (Created: 2009)

State-Specific

Differential incarceration rates in Holyoke, Springfield and Massachusetts (Created: 2012)
Connecticut state incarceration rate, 1973-2008 (Created: 2010)
Illinois state prisoners, 1970-2000 (Created: 2010)
Pennsylvania state prisoners, 1980-2000 (Created: 2009)
Racial disparities in incarceration by state, 2000 (Created: 2004)
Incarceration rates by race, 2001 (each state) (Created: 2004)
Percent of Massachusetts adults barred from voting, by race (Created: 2004)
Blacks are overrepresented in Franklin County, MA jail (Created: 2004)
Massachusetts' falling crime rate (Created: 2004)
Pennsylvania's Institutional Populations 1982-2003 (Created: 2003)
Racial disparities in North Carolina incarceration (Created: 2003)
Racial disparities in North Carolina incarceration (Created: 2003)
Ohio's corrections budget grew faster than education budget, 1985-2000 (Created: 2003)
Blacks overrepresented in Ohio prisons (Created: 2003)
Racial disparities in North Carolina incarceration per 100,000 population (Created: 2003)
Growth in the New York State prison and drug prisoner populations (Created: 2002)
New York State prison and general population by race (Created: 2002)

Meet us

June 26, 2013:
Peter Wagner and the civic hacking team will be presenting their work Unlocking Prison Phone Data at a followup meeting to Hack for Western Mass, a part of the National Day of Civic Hacking initiated by the White House. 7pm. Location TBA.

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