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Title: How much crime is committed by illegal immigrants?
Added: May 8, 2010
Author: reamonnk
Duration: 2:37
Description:
Fact Check: How much crime is committed by illegal immigrants?May 3rd, 2010 @ 8:58pm http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=10634835SALT LAKE CITY -- In the debate over tougher immigration laws in Utah, a lot of statistics are thrown around regarding how much crime undocumented immigrants commit.Sunday morning on KSL's Sunday Edition, Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman, cited numbers showing a huge amount of crime by those of Hispanic ethnicity. The statistic compares homicide arrest rates in the capitol city for the year of 2008, but some say it's all about how you interpret the numbersFrom the Bureau of Criminal Identification -- and these are hard statistics -- in Salt Lake City, Chief [Chris] Burbank's jurisdiction, 81 percent of the homicides, when you have a recorded ethnicity, are committed by Hispanics," Wimmer told KSL's Bruce Lindsay.The statistics Wimmer cited are widely circulated among proponents of tougher immigration laws. Wimmer told us he received the stat from Rep. Chris Herrod, R-Provo. Herrod told KSL he received the numbers from Utah's Bureau of Criminal Identification (BCI), so we analyzed those numbers.According to the BCI statistics for 2008 in Salt Lake City (shown above), there were 18 arrests for various types of homicide. Of those, 9 arrests were of suspects described as Hispanic, two were non-Hispanic, and seven were of an unknown ethnicity.Herrod says he discarded arrests in the "unknown" category because there was no way to tell what ethnicity they were, and that's how he came up with the percentage of 81."If somebody is listed as unknown, should they be counted? Well, you can't determine their ethnicity, so I believe they should be thrown ... that stat should be thrown out," Herrod said.The Provo representative says that's the only way to examine stats right now, since documenting the race and ethnicity of criminals is not done on a regular basis. "That's a reason why we need good record keeping," Herrod says. "They shouldn't have been listed as 'unknown.' They should have been listed as as white, Hispanic, African American."But Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank says that line of thought is flawed. He doesn't believe it is simply an issue of Hispanic versus non-Hispanic, but rather the focus needs to be on legal versus illegal."To throw out statistics because it's listed as other or unidentified as invalid, well that throws off your whole statistical balance of measure," Burbank said. "To say that 81 percent, or any number, it's not accurate."Burbank says when you look at every race, not just Hispanic versus non-Hispanic, it paints a different picture. His department's police reports (in chart below) show 37 percent of homicide arrests in 2008 were of Hispanics, and that in 2009, that number dropped to 33 percent. Meanwhile, Hispanics make up about 20 percent of the city's population."It's a scare tactic to throw out there and say one population is more criminal. That is not the case," Burbank said. Burbank says an overall view at the state's jail population is a better indicator of how many illegal immigrants are committing crimes, rather than looking at Hispanics specifically. The Sutherland Institute conducted one such study last year."There's around 5 percent of the county populations, or the prison populations, is undocumented," explained Derek Monson, spokesman for the Sutherland Institute.Herrod says he stands by his interpretation of the BCI statistics. He refutes the Sutherland Institute's study and says there are several flaws in the way they collected data.
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Youtube Comments: 126
sportsmarvel Says:
Sep 20, 2011 - Thousands of years before the arrival of European explorers, the Anasazi and the Fremont tribes lived in what is now known as Utah. These Native American tribes are subgroups of the Ute-Aztec Native American ethnicity, and were sedentary.
sportsmarvel Says:
Sep 20, 2011 - Gee I wonder who named Los Angeles & why their are so many Hispanics there. LOL I wonder who also named California & if it once was part of Mexico. I wonder why their are so many names like San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Palo Alto. I wonder why their is a state called New Mexico? I also wonder who named Texas & why their is a large city called San Antonio. If their is an invasion maybe it was the other way around not the way you tell it. Their is no invasion!
sportsmarvel Says:
Sep 20, 2011 - Their is no invasion because a large majority of the Hispanic population was already in North America before the English came to America. English was 1 of the last groups to come to North America. By that time the Spanish had already been in South America, Central America, and lower parts of North America. They built mission all over the southwest and were converting the native populations to Christianity. Nina, Pinta, & Santa Maria sailed in 1492 & first English colony was in 1607
sportsmarvel Says:
Sep 20, 2011 - You can also look at this video on youtube just copy and paste link below to get a good laugh. :)Super News the great immigration debate of 1621
sheepsfoot2 Says:
Sep 25, 2011 - search> " Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs - Updated 2010 " this video made by journalist Roy Beck.....is the most important video you will most likely ever watch....concerns the future of western countries........................these bleeding hearts out there...who want to let every man and his dog, stay... will be the downfall of us all.
bunda530 Says:
Sep 28, 2011 - Wrong scumbag mexicans in california commit most of the crimes in california. Why do you think mexicans outnumber whites and blacks in the prison system stupid fool,
bunda530 Says:
Sep 28, 2011 - Came from spain fool you speak spanish because the spanish language came from spain not mexico.
sportsmarvel Says:
Sep 28, 2011 - I know that but just like Americans got their independence from England and called themselves Americans, so did the Spanish citizens who called themselves Mexicans. The indigenous populations were also integrated part of the New Mexican nation. Their were many unions between Spanish & Indigenous people. The first was actually Hernan Cortez who fell in love with his translator princess. He had a child with her and then took his child to the Vatican to get him legitimized by the Pope
sportsmarvel Says:
Sep 28, 2011 - The Spanish & English may be both from Europe but were fighting tooth & nail for land. The reason the Spanish lost land is because they were spread to thin & were also being invaded by France. I mean they the Caribbean to protect. Much of South America, Central America, and North America Nueva Espana modern day Mexico which California, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah & Nevada were a part of its original territories. Oh yeah & lets not forget Ponce De Leon in Florida.
7dwarfsgrower Says:
Oct 12, 2011 - LOL the real question is how much crime is committed by the GOVERNMENT!
alejandromodel Says:
Oct 18, 2011 - Hispanics are the dominant ethnicity in California so stating that is like saying, "look at how many Japanese people are in prison in Japan compared to blacks". You're probably troll, and a stupid one for that matter.
runninonempiy Says:
Oct 26, 2011 - ONCE AGAIN...WRONG FACTS!!!
UltraProle21 Says:
Nov 13, 2011 - ILLEGAL ALIENS MUST DIE!!!!!
hrh9000 Says:
Nov 28, 2011 - The Salt Lake Tribune ran a story on Chief of Police Chris Burbank. Chief Burbank an open illegal alien advocate was reported by the Tribune for cooking the statistics to show illegal aliens weren't committing crimes.They book hispanic into the jail as being white. The county jail does the same thing. The county however the list hispanics on the county's most wanted list as hispanics.The mormon church sent Luz Robles to work for the mexican govt to draft legislation for amnesty.
hrh9000 Says:
Nov 28, 2011 - The mormon church proteced Luz Robles when she should have been investigated for treason. She is the perfect Reconquista agent pushing Mexico's agenda in Utah.Elect Mitt Romney and this is what you will get Romney pushing amnesty for the Mormon church!
LordLindsey12 Says:
Jan 7, 2012 - Who REALLY runs our world? search "israel Did 911" and search "ZionCrimeFactory" for proof."US Rep. McKinney has accused the pro-Israel Lobby in America (AIPAC, ADL, etc) for ruining her political career.She refused to sign the pro-Israel pledge from Congress and took a pro-Palestinian stance. Because of this, she said "war was declared" on her by them. In 2009 she told TIU's Ognir that "more than 99% of Congress work for Zionist-Israeli interests." w(dot)zioncrimefactory com/jew-world-order
pimpedpope Says:
Jan 8, 2012 - This is actually done in psychology all the time if it can't be determined it is thrown out.
mzm153 Says:
Jan 8, 2012 - Apparently its becoming a crime to be Hispanic. That's a symptom of a country falling apart. Just saying.
BloombergisBack Says:
Feb 26, 2012 - Actually, being illegal they are effectively committing a crime by their very presence. The US can't claim to be a first world country if it can't patrol its own borders. Please learn from Israel - build a fence.
fleiva30 Says:
Mar 23, 2012 - yeah thats what the Native Americans said..!!
sj0bs1 Says:
Apr 7, 2012 - personally, I could care less, I hate everyone equally.
jacasforever Says:
Apr 7, 2012 - whites are scaaared ha ha ha ha ha
jjac451 Says:
May 16, 2012 - Kill all of them
SHEEPxDOG Says:
May 16, 2012 - i think its funny how they specifically have a beaner reporting.
sportsmarvel Says:
Sep 20, 2011 - The Spanish made further explorations in the region, but were not interested in colonizing the area because of its desert nature. In 1821, the year Mexico achieved its independence from Spain, the region of Utah became part of Mexico, as part of Alta California.