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◾Nationwide, law enforcement made an estimated 12,196,959 arrests in 2012. Of these arrests, 521,196 were for violent crimes, and 1,646,212 were for property crimes. (Note: the UCR Program does not collect data on citations for traffic violations.) ◾The highest number of arrests were for drug abuse violations (estimated at 1,552,432 arrests), driving under the influence (estimated at 1,282,957), and larceny-theft (estimated at 1,282,352). (See Table 29.)◾In 2012, 69.3 percent of all persons arrested were white, 28.1 percent were black, and the remaining 2.6 percent were of other races. (See Table 43.)

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http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-43

In 2011, a total of 9,499,725 were arrested, 6,578,133 were white and 2,697,539 were black.

According to the US Census Bureau, 77.9% of the US population is white, and 13.1% of the US population is black.

0.779 x 308,747,716= 240,514,400 = about 2.7% of whites arrested.

0.131 x 308,747,716= 40,445,950 = about 6.7% of blacks arrested