Black people in Wisconsin account for 25% of all arrests.
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Louder with CrowderAug 19, 2026
The Milwaukee Courier reports that Black people made up 25.3% of Wisconsin arrests in 2023, which matches the claim's 25% figure. The evidence is thin: it rests on one lower-credibility outlet citing 2023 data, and the Wisconsin DOJ dashboard and Policy Forum report confirm overrepresentation but do not give the arrest share. No source contradicts the figure as of 2026-08-19.
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… We don't know what happened. Maybe a car he looked at a kid. Yeah, exactly. Maybe someone said that Vermont had better cheese. That's definitely it's ridiculous. Ah, just for the record, check the references: only 6.7% of Wisconsin, ah, is black, but blacks in Wisconsin make up 25% of all arrests, 50% of all vehicle thefts, 54% of weapons violations, 56% of homicides, and 75% of robberies. So not all, not all, not all, just a significant majority in all major crime statistics in Wisconsin, despite making up 6% of the population. …
Louder with Crowder · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. The Milwaukee Courier states that Black people represented 25.3% of arrests in Wisconsin in 2023, versus about 6% of the state's population.[3]
Context. The Wisconsin Policy Forum's Cross Examination report says Black Wisconsinites are overrepresented among arrestees, but the excerpt gives no arrest percentage.[4]
Context. The Wisconsin DOJ UCR arrest dashboards publish statewide arrest demographics, but the page text does not show the figures, so they could not be checked directly.[1]
Context. The UW-Madison police equity dashboard covers campus arrests only and is not a statewide measure, so it does not bear on the claim.[2]
Sources
4 sources: 2 primary, 2 not rated
- 1Wisconsin Department of Justice Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR ...wisdoj.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2Equity Dashboard - UW–Madison Police Departmentuwpd.wisc.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 3Wisconsin is among the worst in U.S. in Black incarceration: Here’s the data - The Milwaukee Couriermilwaukeecourier.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4CrossExamination_Summary.pdfwispolicyforum.org · not rated · cited for: context
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