For whatever reason may have provoked that practice, it's going to be over. The issue of witness arrests comes as other serious questions are being raised about the Detroit Police Department. The Justice Department is investigating police shootings of civilians here and the conditions under which some people have died or become ill in police detention. In 1999, the last year for which statistics are available, Detroit reported 1,152 arrests in 415 murder cases. In 1998, the police made 1,310 arrests in 430 murder cases.
Experts say that kind of disparity is almost unheard of.
In 1999, for example, New York had 748 arrests in 664 cases and Chicago had 637 arrests in 642 cases. One discovery, based on the percentage of population by race in counties, shows that Queens, New York is the country s melting-pot capital. PCensus finds and ranks all the areas in the country that meet the demographic profile. In the first trial of the 2000 Census Redistricting data, the percentage of population by race, in all counties with populations of at least 10,000 were analyzed. PCensus found that Bronx County in New York ranked first for Blacks and Hispanics.