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Originally posted by ktsnake
To be fair, are hispanics considered white or black? It's rare that I've seen a government statistical report that doesn't account for hispanics seperately. I'm guessing that they're just considered "not black"?
Considering that latinos/mexicans are such a substantial part of our population (and prison population), this FBI report is quetsionable as far as its usefulness in determining exactly how many whites versus blacks are behind bars (unless you are going to argue that latinos and whites are the same for the purposes of racial statistic gathering).
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Many racial categorizations for Hispanics have two defining categories: Hispanic non-white and Hispanic non-black
What you have highlighted in your post is one of the major concerns of crime incident, arrest, and incarceration data broken down by demographics. However, even with the new immigration and the fact that many Hispanics can also be black (or white), black males comprise a larger (and disproportionate) % of incarcerated persons as compared to white males. Much of this has to do with the war on crack cocaine and gun violence.