Abstract: One of the most significant—and tragic—stories of the last several decades of American history has been the rise of a system of mass incarceration that locks up more than 2.3 million people annually. Million Dollar Hoods, a digital project created by a team at the University of California, Los Angeles, led by the historian Kelly Lytle Hernández, makes clear that a relatively small number of communities have suffered disproportionately from the uneven effects of policing and mass incarceration. Using data obtained through the California Public Records Act (1968), Million Dollar Hoods allows users to see how much the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the Long Beach Police Department, and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) spent between 2010 and 2015 to jail residents of each of Los Angeles County's 272 neighborhoods. The main feature of the site is the Map Room, where users can visualize data from each of the three law enforcement agencies. Those neighborhoods where a given agency spent over 6 million dollars between 2010 and 2015—making them “million dollar hoods”—are colored red. By clicking on a neighborhood, users can view the number of arrests made among neighborhood residents over those six years, the number of days residents spent in jail, and the estimated minimum total cost of their incarceration in Los Angeles jails.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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