6 Comments

Well supported in the academic literature too as my forthcoming book explores (in part).

Expand full comment

Where are Hispanics?

Expand full comment
author

As I noted in the article, "the FBI treats Hispanic ethnicity as a separate variable that may overlap with race".

Expand full comment
Feb 19, 2023Liked by Noah Carl

Sorry, I had only looked at the graphs thus far....The Washington Post database does break it out.

It's a big problem not to break out Hispanics because as members of "BIPOC" they are intersetionally marginalized. Yet often there are statistics for them that show them better than whites, such as maternal deaths.

What it does in essence is to make the white/black division more stark....There is that famous study of drivers in which blacks are stopped more often by police than whites. But I believe Hispanics were stopped at lesser rates than whites...that part is rarely mentioned. And of course, I understand, that the authors of the study didn't attempt to correlate driving quality as a factor in being stopped.

I am Hispanic, btw.

Expand full comment
author
Feb 19, 2023·edited Feb 19, 2023Author

I agree it would be much better to include them, but so far as I'm aware it's not possible using the FBI's offender data: https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezashr/asp/off_selection.asp

Expand full comment
Feb 20, 2023Liked by Noah Carl

I think Steve Sailer found a work-around, by using city data where the Hispanic fraction was known.

Expand full comment