that was radley balko the author of rise of the warrior cop a new report from the washington lawyers committee for civil rights and urban affairs shows a huge racial gap and who gets arrested especially for nonviolent crimes the nation's capital are to correspondent liz wahl takes a closer look at these findings and hit the streets of d.c. to get reaction from citizens and ward seven and eight. oh thank god i did that was a civil rights protest sparked from coast to coast startling statistics come out in the nation's capital a report by the washington lawyers committee for civil rights shows huge racial disparities in arrests in the district this is a shocking set of statistics that really everybody needs to pay much more attention to the report is based on government data between two thousand and nine and two thousand and eleven it shows more than eight out of ten arrests were of african americans most of them were nonviolent nine out of ten of those arrested for drug offenses were black and seven out of ten traffic arrests were african-american the study comes as the verdict in the george zimmerman trayvon m