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[Jon]

That makes sense. Mass media may avoid covering it, but both the US and the UK record crime data by ethnicity or race. This site here looks credible for UK data: https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures....arrests/latest . In the US people look at FBI table 43: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s...ables/table-43 .

Asians in the US have a very low crime rate by race (I think these are mostly technically East Asians, but they're categorized as "Asians"). Their violent crime rates are especially low, although their arrests trend higher for gambling and prostitution. The only East Asian breakdown I'm seeing in that UK data is Chinese people, who have the lowest arrest rate by ethnicity. Western European nations that are seeing "immigrant" crime spikes could just alter their immigration source so that they're importing more immigrants from low-crime countries. Unfortunately people are less inclined to leave those countries.

[NeiljohnUK]

The FBI tables are simple number counts IIRC, which hides the huge differences between ethnicities rates of offending, I wish I could remember who did the analysis and link it, but it's a stunning rate of offending when considered against the actual percentage of the overall population. If we take the raw data from https://statisticalatlas.com/United-...-and-Ethnicity and compare the numbers against the percentage of people overall, then consider the likely offender's age it's horrendous.

The UK data on total arrests without further breakdown is just as misleading.

None of this is good for the wider society, nor the groups involved, for clarity I'm mixed race of White English/Afro-Caribbean heritage, with Scandinavian blood and a fair bit of Irish too in the mix.