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Why are so many criminals listed as WHITE in bookings? Blame it on the @FBI and their Shit For Brains Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. Seriously. The FBI’s UCR Program, including the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS, fully transitioned in 2021), follows Office of Management and Budget standards from 1997 (with updates). The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) was established to improve the overall quality of crime data collected by over 19,000 law enforcement agencies that voluntarily submit their crime data to the UCR Program but they must use the established standard. These are the standard categories law enforcement agencies must use when submitting data. Choices for Race: 🔷Black or African American 🔷American Indian or Alaska Native - origins in North America, Central America and South America but only if they have tribal/community attachment. If you don't know, research Central American Indians and South American Indians. 🔷Asian - Origins in the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent (e.g., China, Japan, Korea, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, etc.). 🔷Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 🔷White (A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Eastern and Western Europeans, the Middle East, North Africa, Hispanics, blatant ERRORS and almost everyone else that doesn’t end up in one of the above choices since the below choices are rarely used) 🔷Not Specified 🔷Unknown - “Unknown” and incomplete fields are common excuses/defaults. *Where in the hell is MIXED RACE choice? Choices for Ethnicity: ♦️Hispanic or Latino - Persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central American, South American, or other Spanish cultures or origins, regardless of race. ♦️Not Hispanic or Latino ♦️Not Specified ♦️Unknown - “Unknown” and incomplete fields are common excuses/defaults. ♦️Multiple ← Have fun with that one Choices for Sex (not gender) that no one asks about but I included anyway: ○ Male ○ Female ○ Unknown - “Unknown” and incomplete fields are common excuses/defaults. ○ Not Specified Choices for Age that no one asks about but I included anyway: • 10-19 • 20-29 • 30-39 • 40-49 • 50-59 • Unknown - “Unknown” and incomplete fields are common excuses/defaults. All local jails, booking systems, and police records management systems do not always use the full, strict NIBRS fields. I know, it's shocking how there's a standard but people simply don't use/follow it. Shit For Brains. Officers often use visual/perceived race or simplified local categories (e.g., White/Black/Hispanic/Asian/Other). “Hispanic” is sometimes treated locally as a race category even though federally it is ethnicity and will not be recorded as a race at the federal level. Re-read that last sentence. Now you know why WHITE people and their criminal ways are a problem. 🤪/s I created this post in response to a request from @SKDoubleDub33 asking me for clarity on a comment by . For clarity, neither asked to be tagged but it just doesn't feel right to not include either of them. What no one asked for → It gets way more confusing if you're looking at the old reporting system that had different choices, reporting requirements, etc... and try to make sense of some specific numbers in the new reporting system because some numbers seemingly appear out of nowhere and others disappears while others increase or decrease without an apparent reason. Oh yeah...there are more changes coming, too. On a personal note: Most of you have seen an image eerily similar to the one below about which race in the USA commits murders. I created the previous version and this one.