claim: "black people are eight times more likely to be arrested than white people" in madison.
author: young, gifted and black coalition
evidence_1: mar 11, 2015 ... while black men made up only 4.8 percent of the county's total adult ... black  adults are 10.9 times as likely as white adults to be arrested in ...
evidence_2: when people are arrested for possessing even tiny amounts of marijuana, it can  ... rates, blacks are 3.73 times more likely than whites to be arrested for  marijuana. ... between 2001 and 2010, there were over 8 million pot arrests in the  u.s. ...
evidence_3: may 14, 2018 ... black new york city residents are arrested much more often than white people  for marijuana-related charges, according to a new investigation ...
evidence_4: may 28, 2015 ... madison, wisconsin, mayor paul soglin (d) addresses a crowd of protestors on ...  people of color, particularly black males, face longer sentences than their ... and  latinos are three times more likely to be searched than whites. ... in school- related arrests or referred to law enforcement” are black or latino.
evidence_5: sep 25, 2015 ... it isn't easy being black in the badger state ... in madison, black kids are eight  times as likely as white kids to be arrested, ... nearly 13 percent of african  american men in wisconsin are incarcerated, a rate that's twice the ...