@JakeLang Good job with Brian….Remember that his stupid per. Capita white statistic of crime …the FBI labels Hispanics as white! Have him AI check that …..I did: es, that is how a large share of official U.S. crime statistics have been constructed. https://t.co/DIDpzS6O2D The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program and National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) collect race and ethnicity as separate fields, following longstanding Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rules. Race categories include White, Black or African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander. Hispanic or Latino is treated as an ethnicity that can apply to people of any race. https://t.co/xFtwZqJmUA In practice this means: • Most Hispanic arrestees are recorded in the White racial category. • The ethnicity field (Hispanic vs. not Hispanic) is not always completed by every agency, so the two sets of numbers do not add up cleanly. • Published “Arrests by Race” tables therefore fold many Hispanics into the White total. FBI tables themselves note this. In 2019, for example, 69.4% of arrestees were classified as White by race, while 19.1% of those for whom ethnicity was reported were Hispanic or Latino. The same pattern appears in later years; 2024 data showed 65.5% White by race and, among cases with ethnicity reported, 22.3% Hispanic. https://t.co/xFtwZqJmUA You cannot simply subtract the Hispanic percentage from the White percentage. Some Hispanics are classified as Black or another race, though the great majority fall into the White racial box. Officers typically assign race based on appearance or existing records, and many people of Mexican, Central American, or other Hispanic origin are coded White. Other datasets handle the categories differently. The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) often reports non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic as distinct groups based on victims’ descriptions of offenders. Some state prison systems also track Hispanic identity more consistently than local arrest reports. https://t.co/3J2OmQSbPs In 2024 OMB updated federal race/ethnicity standards: Hispanic/Latino became a co-equal category in a combined question, and a separate Middle Eastern or North African category was added. Those changes will gradually affect how new data are collected, but most published crime statistics through the mid-2020s still follow the older two-question (race + ethnicity) format. https://t.co/Eiz1g3vHTh The classification is therefore an administrative and definitional feature of the data, not an informal “relabeling.” It does, however, mean that any comparison that treats the FBI’s “White” arrest totals as equivalent to non-Hispanic Whites of European ancestry is mixing groups with different average offending rates. Hispanic rates for most violent crimes typically sit between those of non-Hispanic Whites and Blacks.