The number of arrests is an essential figure to consider as it allows an individual to visualize how the department of justice manages crimes. It is important to first consider that the number of arrests can be influenced and changed when certain factors such as false arrest, differencing in policing and socioeconomic factors are taken into consideration. It is said that in the United states an arrest happens every three seconds, with most (around 80%) of the arrest being related to low-level offenses related to drug abuse and disorderly conduct while violent crimes are only about 5% of the arrests (Every three seconds - every three seconds - emerging findings).
The information shown by the graph below allows us to compare and slightly visualize the justice system within the country as it considers how many arrests were actually made and what the age division for the arrest usually looks like. As initially thought the category of ages with most arrests are people above 25. The limitation to this information however, is that above 25 is a huge range of ages, therefore it does not allow us to examine a greater variety of ranges. The information that is surprising to analyze is how the second group with the most arrests up until the year 1974 is the category of 15-17. This starts to level out however, as the years passes allowing the clear identification of how the individuals that more often get arrested goes in order of age