The FBI did not include a “Latino” or “Hispanic” category until the Uniform Crime Report for 2013, and 93% of Hispanics are classified as “white” by law enforcement officers (irrespective of their ancestry), often inflating the amount of crimes attributed to whites.
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The UCR classifies most Hispanics into the “white” category. The NCVS classifies some Hispanic criminals as “white” and some as “other race”. The victim categories for the NCVS are more distinct.According to a report by the National Council of La Raza, research obstacles undermine the census of Latinos in prison, and “Latinos in the criminal justice system are seriously undercounted. The true extent of the overrepresentation of Latinos in the system probably is significantly greater than researchers have been able to document. Lack of empirical data on Latinos is partially due to prisons’ failures to document ethnic details at intake, or recording practices that historically have classified Latinos as white.[^([42])](https://archive.ph/SRjD9#cite_note-42)The FBI did not include a “Latino” or “Hispanic” category until the Uniform Crime Report for 2013,[^([43])](https://archive.ph/SRjD9#cite_note-43) and 93% of Hispanics are classified as “white” by law enforcement officers (irrespective of their ancestry), often inflating the amount of crimes attributed to whites.[^([44])](https://archive.ph/SRjD9#cite_note-44)
[Demographics cloud optimism on black violent crime decrease | Penn State University (archive.ph)](https://archive.ph/Fw7mM)
and no, latinos are not white. they even have to get more latino bone marrow donors because latinos cannot receive bone marrow as easily from european descent donors as they can from other latino donors.
[Why Ethnicity Matters When Donating Bone Marrow | Be The Match](https://bethematch.org/transplant-basics/how-blood-stem-cell-transplants-work/how-does-a-patients-ethnic-background-affect-matching/)
What’s the conspiracy here? You think this is intentional? If so why?
Or is this just race bait?
Schools do it weird too. Hispanic is a check box but white is in the drop down list. But the Hispanic check box overrides the drop down.
So you can be Hispanic white, or non-hispanic white. Or, you could check the box and use two drop downs so Hispanic, black Asian and as far as the state is concerned, you’re Hispanic.
And killings
Schools do this too. For migrants they just put whatever they feel like. Nothing is real
The police can describe their arrests as less racist and who they kill as less racist
Ethnicity and Race are not the same thing…
I was watching a professor the other day he mentioned that Hispanics were categorized as white because of the agreement made after the Mexican-American war. The agreement that any of Mexican citizens in the territory that the USA was absorbing would become US citizens and the law at the time stated only “white” people could be citizens. He is a professor of that time, but I don’t know how accurate the statement was.
You don’t want to be associated with Hispanics because you think they’re criminals?
It’s also based on the “honor system” for crime reports submitted at the local level. Aka we trust cops to be honest with crime statistics reporting that directly affect their budgets and salaries.