Data Spotlight - Destruction, damage to property in 2024 according to FBI CDE data
Figures from the FBI Crime Data Explorer, 2024
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property Offender vs. Victim Demographics
By Race, Percentages:
- White - 24%
- Black - 17%
- Race Not specified - 45%
- Unknown - 13%
Total # of Offenders: 1,720,329
By Ethnicity:
- Hispanic - 7%
"Whites" includes Hispanics because of the difference between how the goverment classifies race vs ethnicity. Someone can be White because of the color of his/her skin, but Hispanic because of his/her ethnicity. This means some of the 24% "White" offenders are actually Hispanic - potentially 7% points.
Census Bureau - Population Demographics As of July 1, 2024:
- White, not Hispanic - 58.4%
- Black - 13.7%
- Hispanic - 19.5%
Rate of Offender, by Race/Ethnicity (per 10,000):
- White - 20.36
- White, not Hispanic (if half of them are White) - 17.54
- Black - 61.47
- Hispanic - 16.89
Summary
This means Blacks are 3-3.5x as likely to be offenders of damage/destruction as Whites. And this is before we factor in the biggest unknown/withheld piece of data - 58% of the offenders are indicated as "not specified" or "unknown."
Other factors to consider:
- Organized crime / domestic terrorist organizations
- Lack of reporting by local law enforcement
- Limited resources for law enforcement
- Ideology breakdown (left vs conservative)
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