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These types of statistics are politically inconvinient and will never be reported on.

• belter 5y ago
  But the data is out there and Data Scientists are not of the shy type...
  • HPsquared 5y ago
    What data?
    • belter 5y ago
      Number of convicted criminals Age of criminal Sex Income Type of crime Residence area Profession
      • PeterisP 5y ago
        One consideration is that this type of data can't possibly answer the grandparents question, because we know that the rate of prosecution and conviction is rather unequal, so for any subpopulation "number of convicted criminals" can not be expected to be proportional to "number of crimes", if one of two groups has more convictions it does not imply that it actually has done more crime.
        • HideousKojima 5y ago
          Fortunately we have other sources of data such as the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The NCVS asks victims of crimes for details about the perpetrators (amongst many other things). The data aren't perfectly comparable due to how the studies are performed, the way things are categorized, etc., but the NCVS largely corroborates the FBI crime reports. Namely, that Blacks and Hispanics commit a hugely disproportionate amount of crime compared to Whites and Asians. https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/race-and-ethnicity-violent-crime-offenders-and-arrestees-2018 https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/race-and-ethnicity-...