Our justice system is fair ... right?

So often we have heard that there is no racial profiling problem in Wisconsin. That is it not the fault of our criminal justice system that people of color seem to fill our state prisons faster than any other state in the union. After all, if black people would just stop committing crimes they wouldn't get arrested.

USAToday did a little research of there own. Using FBI arrest records reported by local and state police departments, USAToday compared the arrests of black people to non-black people. You can find the discussion in the article titled:  Racial gap in U.S. arrest rates: 'Staggering disparity', 

In this same article, there was an app that allowed individuals to look up their own community to see if there was a disparity in the arrest numbers. Look up your community and post your results.

These are Oshkosh numbers. It is important to remember, these are not individual arrest counts. This number is per 1000 residents. It is also important to remember that in 2012 there were just shy of 2,000 black residents that lived in Oshkosh (there were approximately 58,700 white people).

Do you realize that in order to get to this number, you'd have to arrest every black man, woman, and child in Oshkosh 10 times over to equal 780.1/1000 residents?

Still think that our system is good the way it is?

OSHKOSH POLICE DEPARTMENT

2012 ARREST RATE PER 1000 RESIDENTS

780.1

BLACK RATE

146.9

NON-BLACK RATE