The eight charts below offer a grim portrait of what it’s like to be a black American in our nation’s justice system. 1. Black Americans are more likely to have their cars searched.

Criminal Justice; December 15, 2012. Charts: 247,131 Fatal Shootings in 8 Years. Michael Mechanic ... The smaller pie chart at right breaks down the firearms portion of the larger chart.

The U.S Sentencing Commission has released a new report detailing trends in federal sentencing over the past five years. There’s a good deal to sort through, but one big takeaway is that for the ...

Criminal justice Black men are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white men, according to a study from the University of Michigan, Rutgers University and Washington University.

Chart credit: The Sentencing ... One bright spot in criminal justice reform: the juvenile justice system. The number of youth in residential detention has dropped by roughly half since 1999.

In light of the Michael Brown-prompted Ferguson, Mo., demonstrations, the nation has been re-examining how extraneous factors such as race and socioeconomic status influence the criminal justice ...

In One Chart How Washington’s criminal-justice reform touches just a small slice of the U.S. prison population — in one chart Bipartisan First Step Act affects inmates of federal prisons, but ...

Conservative criminal justice reform advocates huddled in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to chart a path forward to improve the criminal justice system in ways that are consistent with conservative ...