Title: NAACP | Criminal Justice Fact Sheet
Headings: Criminal Justice Fact Sheet
Criminal Justice Fact Sheet
Origins of Modern Day Policing
Modern Day Criminal Justice Structure
Criminal Justice System: Law Enforcement
Background
Police Brutality
Public Perception of Police Brutality and Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System
The Effects of Police Brutality on Mental Health
The Cost of Police Brutality
Criminal Justice System: The Courts
Criminal Justice System: Corrections
Effects of Incarceration
COVID-19 & Infectious Diseases
Penal Labor and Prison Industrial Complex
Death Penalty
Cycle of Incarceration
Fair Chance Hiring (FCH) Fact Sheet

Content: 66% said these encounters were isolated incidents. 84% of Black adults say white people are treated better than black people by police; 63% of white adults agree based on 2019 research on police relations. 87% of Black adults say the U.S. criminal justice system is more unjust towards Black people; 61% of white adults agree. Despite the fact that more white people have been killed by police, Black and Hispanic people are disproportionately impacted. While white people make up a little over 60% of the population, they only make up about 41% of fatal police shootings. Black people make up 13.4% of the population, but make up 22% of fatal police shootings. This does not take into consideration other forms of police brutality, including non-lethal shootings. The number of people shot to death by the police in the United States from 2017 to 2020, by race.