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Georgia Marijuana Possession Arrest Rates by County and Race, Part 1 A-I (2006)

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All
White
Black
Other
County
Arrests
Rate
Arrests
Rate
Pct.
Arrests
Rate
Pct.
Arrests
Rate
Pct.
Appling 33 181 19 130 58% 14 403 42% 0 0 0%
Atkinson 11 561 6 384 55% 5 1,358 45% 0 0 0%
Baldwin 109 233 55 215 50% 54 269 50% 0 0 0%
Banks 33 217 29 202 88% 4 736 12% 0 0 0%
Barrow 140 237 108 216 77% 32 490 23% 0 0 0%
Bartow 220 243 151 189 69% 69 784 31% 0 0 0%
Ben Hill 25 140 5 43 20% 20 333 80% 0 0 0%
Berrien 12 81 11 86 92% 1 57 8% 0 0 0%
Bibb 382 238 86 112 23% 295 369 77% 1 38 0%
Bleckley 81 646 36 402 44% 45 1,351 56% 0 0 0%
Brantley 73 472 69 475 95% 4 539 5% 0 0 0%
Brooks 19 120 10 104 53% 9 153 47% 0 0 0%
Bryan 117 435 77 351 66% 40 987 34% 0 0 0%
Bulloch 149 237 76 176 51% 73 399 49% 0 0 0%
Burke 19 284 6 187 32% 13 387 68% 0 0 0%
Butts 50 230 29 187 58% 21 361 42% 0 0 0%
Camden 119 260 65 187 55% 54 579 45% 0 0 0%
Candler 14 131 7 89 50% 7 263 50% 0 0 0%
Carroll 163 151 98 112 60% 64 345 39% 1 89 1%
Catoosa 110 174 99 164 90% 10 646 9% 1 122 1%
Charlton 6 178 6 259 100% 0 0 0% 0 0 0%
Chatham 734 298 232 169 32% 501 503 68% 1 16 0%
Chattooga 1 5 1 5 100% 0 0 0% 0 0 0%
Cherokee 161 85 142 82 88% 18 173 11% 1 24 1%
Clarke 384 356 167 224 43% 215 778 56% 2 49 1%
Clay 5 149 1 80 20% 4 194 80% 0 0 0%
Clayton 290 566 67 413 23% 221 704 76% 2 72 1%
Clinch 10 231 6 205 60% 4 311 40% 0 0 0%
Cobb 1,261 683 558 423 44% 694 1,651 55% 9 112 1%
Coffee 120 313 67 245 56% 53 515 44% 0 0 0%
Colquitt 61 356 28 216 46% 33 836 54% 0 0 0%
Columbia 68 65 50 59 74% 15 97 22% 3 79 4%
Cook 9 106 5 84 56% 4 167 44% 0 0 0%
Coweta 246 223 131 148 53% 114 592 46% 1 73 0%
Crawford 9 68 6 60 67% 3 99 33% 0 0 0%
Crisp 109 480 41 334 38% 68 681 62% 0 0 0%
Dade 74 447 50 312 68% 24 8,922 32% 0 0 0%
Dawson 110 540 107 544 97% 3 899 3% 0 0 0%
De Kalb 665 100 87 33 13% 577 159 87% 1 3 0%
Decatur 112 390 40 239 36% 72 626 64% 0 0 0%
Dodge 37 305 19 226 51% 18 498 49% 0 0 0%
Dooly 102 1,218 54 1,305 53% 48 1,175 47% 0 0 0%
Dougherty 32 33 9 27 28% 23 37 72% 0 0 0%
Douglas 484 421 170 229 35% 314 853 65% 0 0 0%
Early 24 138 10 117 42% 14 162 58% 0 0 0%
Effingham 18 37 8 20 44% 10 150 56% 0 0 0%
Elbert 58 270 32 216 55% 26 404 45% 0 0 0%
Emanuel 15 121 7 85 47% 8 198 53% 0 0 0%
Fayette 294 273 180 216 61% 114 593 39% 0 0 0%
Floyd 151 155 113 139 75% 36 275 24% 2 117 1%
Forsyth 4 67 4 72 100% 0 0 0% 0 0 0%
Franklin 57 266 39 204 68% 17 889 30% 1 567 2%
Fulton 6,272 640 573 113 9% 5,683 1,359 91% 16 37 0%
Gilmer 44 160 43 161 98% 0 0 0% 1 342 2%
Glynn 251 338 139 260 55% 109 573 43% 3 345 1%
Gordon 126 243 109 223 87% 17 895 13% 0 0 0%
Grady 37 150 13 76 35% 24 339 65% 0 0 0%
Greene 42 259 16 167 38% 26 406 62% 0 0 0%
Gwinnett 578 592 338 503 58% 228 1,162 39% 12 130 2%
Habersham 106 260 93 249 88% 11 580 10% 2 189 2%
Hall 184 470 141 399 77% 43 1,610 23% 0 0 0%
Hancock 52 609 23 1,168 44% 29 447 56% 0 0 0%
Haralson 28 95 25 92 89% 3 175 11% 0 0 0%
Harris 34 130 24 116 71% 10 202 29% 0 0 0%
Hart 22 92 16 84 73% 6 129 27% 0 0 0%
Heard 14 124 9 90 64% 5 418 36% 0 0 0%
Henry 110 64 64 55 58% 46 92 42% 0 0 0%
Houston 57 44 38 42 67% 19 54 33% 0 0 0%
Irwin 13 125 7 94 54% 6 215 46% 0 0 0%

Georgia Marijuana Possession Arress by County and Race, Part 2 J-W (2006)

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Notes:

Classification: The Uniform Crime Reporting Program utilizes 4 classifications for race: White, Black, Indian (Native-American), and Asian. In the tables above the classification “Other” includes both Indian (Native-American) and Asian arrests.

Rates: Arrrest rates are per 100,000 population.

Source: Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data

Because of incomplete reporting the arrest totals presented in tables with data on age, sex, and race will NOT always correspond to totals presented in other tables. Please review the following background material for More Information on Source Data.