More Memes…

These are terrific memes that were created by a volunteer named Sherry Long for us during the week of action against school pushout a few weeks ago.

Fact Sheet: Youth School-Based Arrests at Chicago Public Schools (2012)

Special thanks to our supporter Jacqui Shine for designing this fact sheet based on our most recent data report about school-based arrests on CPS properties.

You can download a PDF of the fact sheet HERE.

Memes Based on CPS School-Based Youth Arrest Report

Our friends at the Native Youth Sexual Health Network created some memes for us based on findings from our recent report “Policing Chicago Public Schools 2” about youth arrests on CPS properties (2011 & 2012). We have been using the memes on social media to raise awareness during the National Week of Action Against School Pushout.

Juvenile Arrests in Chicago – Key Findings from Two New Reports

Over the past few months, Project NIA has been working on several reports about juvenile arrests in Chicago. In May, we released a second edition of our Policing Chicago Public Schools report that focused on data about school based arrests in 2011 & 2012.

Today, we are releasing two reports.

The first focuses on trends in Chicago juvenile arrests from 2009 to 2012. It was written by Ashley Cook, Zygmunt Czykieta, Paul Mack, and Chris Skrable (with contributions by Mariame Kaba). Ashley, Ziggy, Paul and Chris undertook this research as part of an Introduction to GIS course taught by Dr. Mike Stiehl at Loyola University this spring. You can download the report HERE.

The second report is an updated version of our Arresting Justice report that we published in 2011. The new report focuses on Chicago juvenile arrests in 2011 & 2012. You can download it HERE.

Below is a summary of the key findings from both reports. We hope that you find this data useful as you work to decrease young people’s contact with the police.

Juvenile Arrests in Chicago (2012) – Key Findings at a Glance… by Mariame Kaba, Project NIA

1. According to the Chicago Police Department (CPD), there were 22,877 arrests of youth 17 and under in 2012 (some youth may be arrested more than once). This represents a nearly 27% decline in juvenile arrests since 2009. (Arresting Justice 2, 8/13)
2.  In 2012, black youth accounted for 79% of juvenile arrests in Chicago (Arresting Justice 2, 8/13)
3. Expressed in per capita rates, in 2012, black youth were arrested 7.6 times per 100 youth, five times more frequently than Hispanic youth (1.5 arrests per 100 youth) and TEN times more frequently than white youth (0.7 arrests per 100 youth). (Cook, Czykieta, Mack,  Skrable, & Kaba 8/13)
4. For the first time, we present a district by district breakdown of percentages of specific racial populations compared to the percentage of arrests constituted by members of that racial group.

Racial Breakdown of Percentage of Youth & Arrests by District (2012)

District	% Black Youth	Black % of Youth Arrests	% White Youth	White % of Youth Arrests	% Hispanic Youth	Hispanic % of Youth Arrests
1	32.70%	89.50%	35.10%	2.50%	9.01%	6.84%
2	81.60%	96.90%	8.25%	0.68%	3.48%	1.45%
3	94.40%	99.30%	1.10%	0.30%	2.05%	0.22%
4	59.90%	86.10%	3.28%	1.22%	35.40%	12.10%
5	95%	98.90%	0.32%	0.31%	3.95%	0.77%
6	97.10%	99.50%	0.19%	0.08%	1.51%	0.15%
7	96.70%	99.90%	0.14%	0.07%	1.92%	0.07%
8	19.90%	59.60%	9.23%	4.83%	69.40%	35.20%
9	12.80%	52.90%	6.63%	6.12%	69.50%	40.50%
10	29.50%	61.60%	0.92%	1.05%	69.10%	37.10%
11	84.80%	98.10%	0.93%	0.22%	12.90%	1.49%
12	23.30%	52%	11.30%	1.57%	59.40%	46.30%
13	25.10%	70.50%	24.50%	3.41%	36.50%	26.10%
14	10.60%	35.10%	18.90%	6.44%	66.50%	57.80%
15	93%	99.50%	0.71%	0.14%	4.93%	0.41%
16	1.10%	17.50%	55.40%	39.50%	35.10%	40.80%
17	3.48%	28%	25.80%	13.10%	57.70%	57.30%
18	21.10%	91.50%	60.10%	2.58%	7.01%	4.94%
19	11.80%	60.50%	61.70%	14.80%	16.30%	23.50%
20	12.90%	69.80%	34.80%	0%	32.20%	29.40%
22	60.50%	95%	32.40%	3.61%	5.19%	1.29%
24	20.40%	70.70%	27.20%	4.41%	32.10%	22.50%
25	15.40%	46.80%	6.07%	4%	76.50%	48.80%

Black youth are arrested in greater proportion than their populations represent throughout the entire city. Hispanic youth are arrested in greater proportions in a few districts on the Northside and white youth are arrested in smaller proportions than their population throughout the entire city. (Cook, Czykieta, Mack, Skrable, & Kaba, 8/13)

5. In Chicago, boys/young men were 84% of juvenile arrests in 2012 (Arresting Justice 2, 8/13).

6. More juvenile arrests in Chicago were for misdemeanor offenses (74%) in 2012 (Arresting Justice 2, 8/13).

7. In 2012, most of the juvenile arrests (64.5%) in Chicago were concentrated in 10 districts. In order of most arrests, these districts are 8, 11, 7, 15, 4, 3, 6, 5, 9, and 10 (Arresting Justice 2, 8/13).

8. There were 1,080 formal and 6,149 informal stations adjustments[1] reported by the Chicago Police Department in 2012 (Arresting Justice 2, 8/13)

Sources:

Kaba, Mariame (2013) Arresting Justice (Second Edition): Juvenile Arrests in Chicago, 2011 and 2012.

Cook, Czykieta, Mack, Skrable & Kaba (2013) Trends in Chicago Juvenile Arrests, 2009-2012.

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[1] As an alternative to referring the case to Juvenile Court, a youth officer may release a young person from custody with a station adjustment. There are two types of station adjustments: informal and formal. A youth officer may give an informal station adjustment if he/she decides there is probable cause to believe the juvenile committed an offense. A formal station adjustment is different in that a juvenile must also admit involvement in the alleged offense. The juvenile’s admission can later be used as evidence against him/her if they violate the terms of the formal adjustment and his case is referred to court.

Although they are not convictions, station adjustments usually appear in a juvenile’s arrest history. All formal station adjustments must be recorded with the Illinois State Police. Informal station adjustments for felonies must also be recorded with the Illinois State Police, and informal station adjustments for misdemeanors may be recorded. Station adjustments can be expunged from a juvenile’s record.

Maps: Rate of Change in Juvenile Arrests, 2009-2012

We are looking forward to releasing a new report about trends in Chicago juvenile arrests from 2009-2012 in the next few weeks. The report is written by students who were participants in an introductory GIS course taught by Dr. Mike Stiehl at Loyola University. The students are Ashley Cook, Zygmunt Czykieta, Paul Mack, and Chris Skrable and they created the following maps to illustrate the rate of change of juvenile arrests by district.  We have already shared information about the overall decline of 26.7% in juvenile arrests since 2009. Now we have these terrific maps to add more detail to the overall trend. We greatly appreciate our partnership with the students and are grateful for their important and excellent work.

(May 2013)

The next three maps are broken out according the race (white, black, and latin@)

(May 2013)

(May 2013)

(May 2013)

New Report: Youth School-Based Arrests in Chicago Public Schools, 2011 & 2012

Announcing the Release of “Policing Chicago Public Schools 2:” A New Report about School-Based Youth Arrests in Chicago 2011 and 2012

Project NIA (www.project-nia.org) has released a new report titled “Policing Chicago Public Schools 2: School-Based Arrests 2011 and 2012.” The report relies on data from the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to show the types of offenses and the demographics (gender, age and race) of the youth arrested on CPS properties in calendar years 2011 & 2012.  The report builds upon the 2010 data that we presented in January 2012.

by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams (2011)

CPD reports its data by police district rather than by individual school so this year we also worked with students from Loyola University to create an interactive application that allows individuals to search for crime and arrest data by school for the 2011-2012 school year too.

The key data points in the report are that:

1. Overall youth school-based arrests have been decreasing. In 2010, over 5,500 arrests of young people under 18 years old took place on CPS properties. In 2011, the number of youth school-based arrests (18 & under) was 4,959 and in 2012, it was 4,287.
2. Black youth are still disproportionately targeted by these arrests. While they represent about 42% of CPS students, black youth accounted for 75.5% percent of school-based arrests in 2012.  This mirrors the general trend of disproportionate minority contact within the juvenile legal system.
3. In 2012, young men were more likely to be arrested on CPS properties than were their female counterparts [68% vs. 32%].
4. Most youth school-based arrests are for misdemeanor offenses (84%) as opposed to felonies (16%).
5. In 2012, 86% of youth school-based arrests happened in school buildings while 14% took place on school grounds.
6. In 2012, the top three aggregate numbers of youth school-based arrests are in the 8^th, 5^th, and 4^th police districts.  Together these three districts account for 30% of total youth school-based arrests on CPS properties.

This report was developed and written by Mariame Kaba and Eva Nagao. To access the full report, visit the Policing Chicago Public Schools 2 site HERE.

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Maps: Cook County Juvenile Arrests CY2011 & 2012

Much appreciation to Kanako Ishida, Policy Research Analyst, of the Juvenile Justice Initiative for sharing these terrific maps of Cook County Juvenile Arrests from 2008-2012. I only include maps for the most recent years of 2011 and 2012 below.

New Fact Sheet & Interactive Map: Arrests on Chicago Public Schools Properties 2011 and 2012

print by Sarah Atlas for Black & Blue Exhibition (3/13)

Last January (2012), we published a report titled “Policing Chicago Public Schools.” The report relied on data from the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to show (for the first time in seven years) the type of offenses and the demographics (gender, age and race) of the juveniles arrested on Chicago Public Schools (CPS) property in calendar year 2010.

We are currently working to update this report by publishing data from the Chicago Police Department about youth arrests (18 & under) on CPS property in calendar years 2011 and 2012. In the meantime, we are pleased to share a preview of that report today through the following FACT SHEET. The fact sheet offers preliminary data including the gender, age, and race of the youth (18 & under) arrested on CPS property in 2011 and 2012. New this year, we have broken the data out according to arrests on school grounds and in school buildings.

Our final report will be available in late summer.

Additionally, we are excited to share a wonderful interactive map that was created by Chris Skrable featuring information about crimes and arrests on CPS properties for the 2011-2012 academic year. This map only includes crimes and arrests that took place during the school day between 8 am and 5 pm. The map allows you to search by school by simply typing the name of your school in the search bar at the top right of the page. If searching for Kilmer Elementary for example, type: Kilmer Elementary, Chicago [Don’t forget to include Chicago so that it can direct you to the appropriate location].

Once you find your school on the map, click on it and you will see demographic, crime, and arrest data. Importantly, the data is presented as a ratio per 100 students which allows for comparisons between schools. Finally, you can play around with the zoom feature on the map located on the left side. We thank Chris for his hard work on this terrific resource. Chris created the map as part of a GIS course taught by Dr. Mike Steihl at Loyola University. We are excited to share the other maps created by other students in our upcoming reports about juvenile arrests in Chicago that will be published in late summer and in the fall.

You can find the interactive map HERE.

Let us know what you think about these new resources in the comments section below or by emailing us at chiyouthjustice@gmail.com. We are always happy to get feedback about our work and appreciate hearing how our resources are being used!

Promising Trend: Juvenile Arrests in Chicago Continue to Decrease

Juvenile Arrests (17 and Under, City of Chicago, 2009-2012)

2009	2010	2011	2012	% change
31,224	27,563	25,111	22,877	-26.7%
Source: CPD Research and Development Division, Research and Analysis Section

There has been a continuing decrease in the number of juvenile arrests (youth 17 and under) in Chicago. Since 2009, juvenile arrests in the city have dropped by 26.7%.  Stay tuned for our upcoming report which will update Arresting Justice that was released in 2011 and includes data from 2009 & 2010. The new report includes data from 2011 and 2012 and will be released in early September.

More 17 Year Old Arrested for Felonies in Cook County Than Anywhere Else in U.S.

Please read the following article by Angela Caputo in the Chicago Reporter:

That’s because Illinois is one of 10 states in the nation that automatically send 17-year-olds facing felony charges to adult courts. A Chicago Reporter analysis of criminal court data shows that an increasing number of 17-year-olds in Cook County have been convicted as adults compared with five years ago. In 2011, 907 17-year-olds were convicted, up 15 percent from 789 in 2007.

In 2012, Cook County is on pace to surpass last year’s record, tallying 41 percent more convictions as of April than during the same period in 2011.