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[–]marc_gee 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Whites are over-represented in 8 of those 12 crimes. Whites were 60% of the population in the 2010 Census.

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Keep in mind, "White" here includes Hispanics, Arabs and Jews

[–]marc_gee 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Possibly, except the source seems to have a separate segment for hispanics. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/table-43

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It's ethnicity, not race. For legal race, Hispanics are treated as White (at least for perpetrators).