Study: APD Charges African-Americans Disproportionately For Resisting Arrest

This week the Asheville Citizen-Times published a study showing Asheville police were disproportionately charging African-Americans with resisting arrest. The study, which looked at the last five year, found that 35-percent of resisting arrest charges

An episode of the BPR News Extended podcast, hosted by Matt Bush, titled "Study: APD Charges African-Americans Disproportionately For Resisting Arrest" was published on January 24, 2019 and runs 18 minutes.

January 24, 2019 ·18m · BPR News Extended

Summary

This week the Asheville Citizen-Times published a study showing Asheville police were disproportionately charging African-Americans with resisting arrest. The study, which looked at the last five year, found that 35-percent of resisting arrest charges filed by Asheville police were against African-Americans. The city's black population is only 12-percent. The study also found a sizable number of those arrests for resisting an officer included no other charges. Joel Burgess of the Citizen-Times

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