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5 = Blacks Counted as White in Crime Stats =
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Ryan C 15.1 19 = Texas Sex Offender Registry Race/Ethnicity Audit =
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Ryan C 15.1 22 == Overview ==
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Ryan C 15.1 24 On **September 9, 2023**, Unbiased Crime Report (@UnbiasedCrime){{footnote}} https://x.com/UnbiasedCrime{{/footnote}} published an in-depth analysis of the Texas Department of Public Safety’s sex offender registry, focusing on race and ethnicity misclassifications. The thread examines a database of 101,976 registrants and highlights systemic data errors that misrepresent non-White offenders as White.{{footnote}} https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1700341490206310416{{/footnote}}
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Ryan C 15.1 26 == Data Collection ==
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28 ~1. Downloaded the full Texas Sex Offender Registry: **101,976** entries.
29 2. Queried the database to flag potential mismatches between surnames, self-reported race/ethnicity, and demographic patterns.
30 3. Used custom scripts to compute initial accuracy metrics.
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32 == Key Findings ==
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34 ~1. **Raw Misclassification Counts**
35 ~* Hispanics flagged as “Non-Hispanic White”: **11,541**
36 ~* Blacks flagged as White: **92**
37 ~* Asians flagged as White: **34**
38 ~* Whites flagged as Black: **1**
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Ryan C 14.1 40 1. **Accuracy Metrics**
Ryan C 15.1 41 1*. Initial accuracy: **89.48 %**.
42 1*. After manual verification: **92.27 %**.
Ryan C 14.1 43 1*. Remaining false positives to review: **2,590**.
44 1. **Notable Examples**
Ryan C 15.1 45 1*. Clusters of “Hernandez” surnames incorrectly marked as White.
46 1*. **Dequan**, a documented Black offender, listed as “Non-Hispanic White.”
Ryan C 14.1 47 1*. **Louby Innocent**, originally marked Black in Florida, appeared as White in Texas.
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Ryan C 15.1 49 == Methodology ==
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Ryan C 15.1 51 ~1. Automated surname-based queries to generate candidate mismatches.
52 2. Manual review of flagged entries by cross-referencing public DPS records.
53 3. Iterative re-runs to refine the matching algorithm and reduce false positives.
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Ryan C 25.1 58 This phenomena was not isolated to a single department. Most of the initial reporting was discovered in Texas {{footnote}}https://archive.ph/publicsite.dps.texas.gov{{/footnote}}, but later investigations were shown to exist in Florida{{footnote}} https://x.com/UnbiasedCrime/status/1707208951417454694{{/footnote}}  and New York{{footnote}} https://x.com/UnbiasedCrime/status/1707208951417454694{{/footnote}}. The total number of incidents and number still uncorrected and number of additional incidents is not clear at this time, but as this was not a one off incident, it's safe to assume that this is as of now a still growing problem. This incident in Delaware is an example of the large scope of this recurring issue.
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Ryan C 24.2 61 == [[image:1751324958818-162.png||height="374" width="400"]] ==
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Ryan C 11.1 80 [[Sex offender statistics comparison before and after nonwhites were correctly switched to their respective races.>>image:comparison.png||alt="image1.jpg"]]
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Ryan C 9.1 83 //Figure 1: [[Comparison>>attach:1000000503.jpg]]//
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Ryan C 21.1 85 [[image:blacks_counted_as_white_Injustice__ethnicity__image__images__non-hispanic__race__texas__white_.jpg||alt="image2.jpg"]]
Ryan C 20.1 86 //Figure 2: [[Archived Examples>>attach:blacks_counted_as_white_Injustice__ethnicity__image__images__non-hispanic__race__texas__white_.jpg]]//
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