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It's not very tricky at all. A random sampling of citizens are asked if they experienced violent crime (including instances not reported to police), and if so,
by waffle_ss 6y ago
It's not very tricky at all. A random sampling of citizens are asked if they experienced violent crime (including instances not reported to police), and if so, to describe the offender (ethnicity being just one component).[1]
Year after year the random samples of victimization correlates with arrest rate by ethnicity.
[1]: https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245#Methodology https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245#Methodolog...
- ta17711771 6y agoI wonder if any of those surveyed included banking crimes in their list that affected them.
- waffle_ss 6y agoIt’s a survey of violent crime. So if by banking crime you mean getting mugged, yes, but if you mean a guy from India calling your grandma and saying he’s the IRS and needs her banking info, then no.