Signicant Racial Disparities Exist in Marijuana

Possession Arrests for Blacks in Minneapolis*

Despite Similar Usage Rates (2004-2012)**

*
All arrests analyzed are for the Minneapolis Police Department as reported by the FBI/UCR.
**
Despite the pronounced disparities in arrest rates of whites and Blacks for marijuana possession, rates of marijuana use and non-use between whites and Blacks are roughly equal. Among all age
groups since 2001, use by Blacks of marijuana in the past 12 months is slightly higher than use by Whites. In 2010, for instance, 14.0% of Blacks and 11.6% of whites reported using marijuana
in the past year. In 2009, reported use of marijuana in the past year was 12.4% for Blacks and 11.7% for whites. The data on marijuana use were obtained from the National Survey on Drug Use
and Health (NSDUH). For more information about reported rates of marijuana use see the ACLU report, The War in Marijuana in Black and White (2013), pages 30-31, 66-67, available at
https://www.aclu.org/les/assets/1114413-mj-report-rfs-rel1.pdf.

The ACLUs preliminary analysis adopts the FBI/UCR Programs methodology of counting one arrest for each separate instance in which a person is arrested, cited, or summoned for an oense.
Further, when someone is arrested for multiple crimes arising from one arrest incident, the FBI/UCR Program calls it a multiple-oense situation. All multiple oense situations that involved Part I
oenses were excluded from the analysis in accordance with the FBI/UCR Hierarchy Rule. For all multiple oense situations in which one person was arrested for multiple non-Part I oenses in
one incident, only one non-Part I oense is included in the analysis in accordance with the FBI/UCR reporting guidelines.

The FBI/UCR does not report arrest data for Latinos. This likely results in an over-reporting of white arrests, if Latino arrests are categorized as such. This means that the racial disparities between

Blacks and whites is likely higher in Minneapolis, given the city has a Latino population of over 10 percent.
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1,432
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Source: FBI/Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data and U.S. Census Data
Arrest Rates for Marijuana Possession by Race in Minneapolis (2004-2012)
FIGURE 1
White Arrest Rate Black Arrest Rate
TABLE 1
PaciaI Disparities in Harijuana Pcssessicn Arrest Pates I200-2012!
Arrest Pates per 100,000
YEAP Tolol While Block Times More Likely
Blocks lrresled
2OO/ 23 82 51 11.55
2OO5 /O/ 118 1,c85 1/.28
2OOc 3O3 81 1,25 15.7
2OO7 3/O c 1,/32 1/./
2OO8 33/ 122 1,28 1O.cO
2OO 3O 112 1,17 1O.5/
2O1O 3OO 1O5 1,181 11.2c
2O11 23/ 1O 828 7.57
2O12 383 13 1,32c c.8
FB/Uniform 0rime Reporling Progrom Dolo ond U.S. 0ensus Dolo
TABLE 2
Number cf Arrests fcr Harijuana Pcssessicn by Year I200-2012!
Number cf Arrests fcr Harijuana Pcssessicn
YEAP Tolol While Block
2OO/ 1c 2O1 c7c
2OO5 1,5/7 288 1,18
2OOc 1,158 18 21
2OO7 1,3OO 23/ 1,O18
2OO8 1,27c 2 23
2OO 1,183 273 838
2O1O 1,1/7 25c 8/O
2O11 87 2c7 58
2O12 1,/c5 /7O /3
FB/Uniform 0rime Reporling Progrom Dolo ond U.S. 0ensus Dolo
Signicant Racial Disparities Exist in Vagrancy
Arrests for Blacks in Minneapolis* (2004-2012)

*
All arrests analyzed are for the Minneapolis Police Department as reported by the FBI/UCR.

The ACLUs preliminary analysis adopts the FBI/UCR Programs methodology of counting one arrest for each separate instance in which a person is arrested, cited, or summoned for an oense. Further,
when someone is arrested for multiple crimes arising from one arrest incident, the FBI/UCR Program calls it a multiple-oense situation. All multiple oense situations that involved Part I oenses
were excluded from the analysis in accordance with the FBI/UCR Hierarchy Rule. For all multiple oense situations in which one person was arrested for multiple non-Part I oenses in one incident,
only one non-Part I oense is included in the analysis in accordance with the FBI/UCR reporting guidelines.

The FBI/UCR does not report arrest data for Latinos. This likely results in an over-reporting of white arrests, if Latino arrests are categorized as such. This means that the racial disparities between
Blacks and whites is likely higher in Minneapolis, given the city has a Latino population of over 10 percent.
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Source: FBI/Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data and U.S. Census Data
Arrest Rates for Vagrancy by Race in Minneapolis (2004-2012)
FIGURE 2
White Arrest Rate Black Arrest Rate
TABLE 3
PaciaI Disparities in Arrest Pates fcr agrancy I200-2012!
Arrest Pates per 100,000
YEAP Tolol While Block Times More Likely
Blocks lrresled
2OO/ 72 // 188 /.3O
2OO5 /c 1c 155 .//
2OOc 5c 23 17c 7.cc
2OO7 cO 25 18 7./
2OO8 c1 3O 135 /.51
2OO 1 3/ 331 .72
2O1O 1O5 3 38O .cc
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2O12 158 73 /3c 5.5
FB/Uniform 0rime Reporling Progrom Dolo ond U.S. 0ensus Dolo
TABLE
Number cf Arrests fcr agrancy by Year I200-2012!
Number cf Arrests fcr agrancy
YEAP Tolol While Block
2OO/ 27/ 1O7 13/
2OO5 177 /O 11O
2OOc 21/ 5c 125
2OO7 231 c1 1/1
2OO8 235 73 c
2OO 3/8 83 235
2O1O /O2 c 27O
2O11 383 8 2/8
2O12 cO/ 17 31O
FB/Uniform 0rime Reporling Progrom Dolo ond U.S. 0ensus Dolo
were excluded from the analysis in accordance with the FBI/UCR Hierarchy Rule. For all multiple oense situations in which one person was arrested for multiple non-Part I oenses in one incident,
only one non-Part I oense is included in the analysis in accordance with the FBI/UCR reporting guidelines.
Signicant Racial Disparities Exist in Disorderly
Conduct Arrests for Blacks in Minneapolis*
(2004-2012)

*
All arrests analyzed are for the Minneapolis Police Department as reported by the FBI/UCR.

The ACLUs preliminary analysis adopts the FBI/UCR Programs methodology of counting one arrest for each separate instance in which a person is arrested, cited, or summoned for an oense. Further,
when someone is arrested for multiple crimes arising from one arrest incident, the FBI/UCR Program calls it a multiple-oense situation. All multiple oense situations that involved Part I oenses

The FBI/UCR does not report arrest data for Latinos. This likely results in an over-reporting of white arrests, if Latino arrests are categorized as such. This means that the racial disparities between
Blacks and whites is likely higher in Minneapolis, given the city has a Latino population of over 10 percent.
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Source: FBI/Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data and U.S. Census Data
Arrest Rates for Disorderly Conduct by Race in Minneapolis (2004-2012)
FIGURE 3
White Arrest Rate Black Arrest Rate
TABLE 5
PaciaI Disparities in Arrest Pates fcr DiscrderIy Ccnduct I200-2012!
Arrest Pates per 100,000
YEAP Tolol While Block Times More Likely
Blocks lrresled
2OO/ 7cO 35 2,/12 c.11
2OO5 1,21 /1/ /,c58 11.2c
2OOc 78O 281 2,33 1O./3
2OO7 782 31O 2,82c .11
2OO8 c37 272 2,2O8 8.11
2OO 573 25O 2,O18 8.O8
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2O12 73c 3O2 2,c2O 8.c
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TABLE
Number cf Arrests fcr DiscrderIy Ccnduct by Year I200-2012!
Number cf Arrests fcr DiscrderIy Ccnduct
YEAP Tolol While Block
2OO/ 2,O7 c3 1,715
2OO5 /,cc3 1,O1O 3,312
2OOc 2,85 c8c 2,O85
2OO7 2,O 757 2,OO
2OO8 2,/37 cc5 1,57O
2OO 2,11 c1O 1,/35
2O1O 2,Occ 525 1,/O7
2O11 1,15 5O5 1,2O
2O12 2,81/ 73c 1,8c3
FB/Uniform 0rime Reporling Progrom Dolo ond U.S. 0ensus Dolo
Signicant Racial Disparities Exist in Curfew/
Loitering Arrests for Black Juveniles in Minneapolis*
(2004-2012)

*
All arrests analyzed are for the Minneapolis Police Department as reported by the FBI/UCR.

The ACLUs preliminary analysis adopts the FBI/UCR Programs methodology of counting one arrest for each separate instance in which a person is arrested, cited, or summoned for an oense. Further,
when someone is arrested for multiple crimes arising from one arrest incident, the FBI/UCR Program calls it a multiple-oense situation. All multiple oense situations that involved Part I oenses

The FBI/UCR does not report arrest data for Latinos. This likely results in an over-reporting of white arrests, if Latino arrests are categorized as such. This means that the racial disparities between
Blacks and whites is likely higher in Minneapolis, given the city has a Latino population of over 10 percent.
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Source: FBI/Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data and U.S. Census Data
Arrest Rates for Juvenile Curfew and Loitering Violations by Race
in Minneapolis (2004-2012)
FIGURE 4
White Arrest Rate Black Arrest Rate
TABLE 7
PaciaI Disparities in Arrest Pates fcr JuveniIe Curfew and Lcitering
icIaticns I200-2012!
Arrest Pates per 100,000 JuveniIes
YEAP Tolol While Block Times More Likely
Blocks lrresled
2OO/ 1,83/ cc3 c,5/ ./
2OO5 2,c8 c15 12,185 1.83
2OOc /,13 8/2 1c,732 1.88
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2O1O 1,7O7 31O c,5/5 21.O
2O11 2,3/ 1,Oc5 7,137 c.7O
2O12 /,O2O 1,8c 12,5/7 c.c2
FB/Uniform 0rime Reporling Progrom Dolo ond U.S. 0ensus Dolo
TABLE 8
Number cf Arrests fcr JuveniIe Curfew and Lcitering icIaticns by Year
I200-2012!
Number cf Arrests fcr JuveniIe Curfew and Lcitering icIaticns
YEAP Tolol While Block
2OO/ 1,/17 327 /7
2OO5 2,2/ 3O3 1,75O
2OOc 3,1 /15 2,/O3
2OO7 2,O3 277 1,582
2OO8 1,732 222 1,23
2OO 1,7O2 182 1,2c7
2O1O 1,31 153 /O
2O11 1,85O 525 1,O25
2O12 3,1O7 35 1,8O2
FB/Uniform 0rime Reporling Progrom Dolo ond U.S. 0ensus Dolo
were excluded from the analysis in accordance with the FBI/UCR Hierarchy Rule. For all multiple oense situations in which one person was arrested for multiple non-Part I oenses in one incident,
only one non-Part I oense is included in the analysis in accordance with the FBI/UCR reporting guidelines.
Violent Crime Rates and Property Crime Rates Since
2004 in Minneapolis*

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Source: FBI/Uniform Crime Reporting Program and Minneapolis Metropolitan Council Data
Crime Rates in Minneapolis by Year (2004-2012)
FIGURE 5
Violent Crime Rate
Property Crime Rate
In the FBIs UCR Program, violent crime is composed of four oenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Violent crimes are dened in the UCR
Program as those oenses which involve force or threat of force. In addition, property crime inlcudes the oenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The object of the theft-type
oense is the taking of money or property, but there is no force or threat against the victims.
TABLE 9
Crime Pates in HinneapcIis by Year I200-2012!
Incidents per 100,000
YEAP \iolenl 0rime Properly 0rime 0ily Populolion
2OO/ 1,231 /,/c 382,/OO
2OO5 1,/11 5,83 387,711
2OOc 1,52c 5,875 387,7O
2OO7 1,/38 5,8cc 388,O2O
2OO8 1,225 5,3c7 3O,131
2OO 1,O7 /,c55 38c,c1
2O1O 1,Oc2 /,813 382,578
2O11 cO /,8/ 387,873
2O12 88 /,c8 32,OO8
FB/Uniform 0rime Reporling Progrom ond Minneopolis Melropolilon 0ouncil Dolo
*