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of negro arrests to the total arrests was seven times as great as the ratio of the negro population to the total population.

RATIO OF NEGRO ARRESTS TO THE NEGRO POPULATION, COMPARED WITH THE RATIO OF TOTAL ARRESTS TO THE TOTAL POPULATION.

Y Ratio of Ratio of Year Ratio of Ratio of

negro arrests total arrests negro arrests total arrests

1872 i to 5.6 I to 13 1892 i to 1.9 i to 1 6

1880 i to 4.7 i to 19 1894 i to 3 i to 17

1890 i to 2.6 i to 17 1896 i to 2.4 i to 16

From this table we see that the ratio of negro arrests to the negro population is from three to nine times as great as the ratio of total arrests to the total population.

The ratio of negro arrests to the negro population, compared with the ratio of foreign arrests to the foreign population, shows that the ratio of arrests for the foreign population and the ratio of arrests for the total white population is about the same. The proportion of arrests among the negroes is about six times as great as the proportion of arrests among the total foreign popu- lation.

With the exception of the Chinese, Greeks, and Mexicans, the proportion of arrests among the negroes to the negro popu- lation is from two to eighteen times as great as the proportion of arrests among the different foreign peoples of the city.

A comparison of the negro arrests, 189097, in Chicago with the negro arrests in New York city, Washington, D. C., Rich- mond, Va., and Charleston, S. C., shows that the ratio of negro arrests in Charleston is but slightly greater than the ratio of negroes in the total city population ; in Richmond the ratio of negro arrests to the total arrests is one and one-fourth times greater than the ratio of the negro population to the total popu- lation ; in Washington and New York the ratio is one and a half times as great ; while in Chicago the ratio of negro arrests to the total arrests is seven times as great as the ratio of the negro population to the total population.

The negro arrests in these cities compared with the negro population show that the proportion of negro arrests in Chicago is from two to five times as great as the proportion of negro arrests to negro population in these cities; e.g., in 1890 the