Marian

I have spent the last 72 hours running through thousands of arrest records in North Carolina. I've looked at something like 10,000 arrests. What I'm discovering is so shocking, so horrifying, it cannot be a coincidence. Hundreds of individuals are clearly being mislabeled in the arrest records system. It's not a one-off or remotely rare. There are hundreds of these, possibly thousands... just in North Carolina. The clearest and most damning examples are when a repeat offender is arrested multiple times and his race is obviously changed between arrests. I found at least 18 instances of this. Here's the kicker... it NEVER happens the other way. White men are NEVER labelled hispanic. Neither are black men. It's always hispanic (FOR WHICH THERE IS AN OPTION!!!) men being labelled a) Caucasian b) White c) Other d) Unknown Again, there is a CLEAR and often-used option to label an individual as Hispanic and it is deliberately not being used. EVEN WHEN the person has originally been arrested and labelled "H" = Hispanic. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th arrest will label them "Caucasian" I cannot think of any rational, reasonable explanation for why this is occurring, AT SCALE, in North Carolina. At the minimum, we cannot trust any race data coming out of North Carolina arrest records. If that data feeds into any federal system, we cannot trust this either. Even, for the sake of argument, if the data is NOT being intentionally manipulated... the data is clearly and wildly inaccurate. I am open to all explanations, but this looks like major data manipulation to me.