Police in These West Coast Cities Disproportionately Arrest Unhoused People
From 2017 through 2020, unhoused people made up at most an estimated 2% of the population in each of the following cities.
Unhoused
Housed
Address unknown or missing
Portland
50%
46%
Sacramento
42%
58%
Los Angeles
24%
76%
San Diego
11%
52%
37%
Oakland
7%
90%
Notes: The Seattle Police Department did not provide arrest data before 2019 and wasn’t included.
Sources: Reveal analysis of police data obtained via public records requests, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Housing Inventory Count, U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder
Credit: Melissa Lewis/Reveal
Police in These West Coast Cities Disproportionately Arrest Unhoused People
From 2017 through 2020, unhoused people made up at most an estimated 2% of the population in each of the following cities.
Unhoused
Housed
Address unknown or missing
Portland
50%
46%
Sacramento
42%
58%
Los Angeles
24%
76%
San Diego
11%
52%
37%
Oakland
7%
90%
Notes: The Seattle Police Department did not provide arrest data before 2019 and wasn’t included.
Sources: Reveal analysis of police data obtained via public records requests, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Housing Inventory Count, U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder
Credit: Melissa Lewis/Reveal