DID YOU KNOW? Black people are far more likely than white people to be convicted of crimes they did not commit. As of August 8, 2022, the National Registry of Exonerations listed 3,200 defendants who were convicted of crimes in the United States and later exonerated because they were innocent;1 53 percent of them were black, nearly four times their proportion of the population, which is now about 13.6 percent.2 Judging from exonerations, innocent black Americans are seven times more likely than white Americans to be falsely convicted of crimes.
