graph showing racial disparities in youth arrests. Despite making up only 15% of the youth population, Black youth account for 35% of youth arrests.

Data Source: Census Bureau, Annual Estimates of the Resident Population by Sex, Age, Race, and Hispanic Origin (Table NC-EST2019-ASR6H), and the FBI’s Crime in the United States, 2018 Table 43A. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2020)

This graph originally appeared in Visualizing the racial disparities in mass incarceration.

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