Hispanics are less prone to crime
*The whole Donald Trump and Kelly Osbourne mess, as obnoxious as they have been, have provided an opportunity and a spotlight to correct misconceptions. I’ve seen more articles about the need to end stereotypes since Trump opened his mouth and attacked Mexicans. VL
By Anhvinh Doanvo, Florida Times-Union
Republicans politicized the murder to pass the “Enforce the Law for Sanctuary Cities Act” (H.R. 3009), a bill that would defund state and local law enforcement associated with “sanctuary cities.”
[pullquote][tweet_dis]First-generation immigrants were 45 percent less likely to commit violence than third-generation Americans while second-generation immigrants were 22 percent less likely.[/tweet_dis][/pullquote]Though Steinle’s murder may seem to be powerful evidence of a criminal problem the U.S. has with undocumented immigrants, this bill would politicize law enforcement and is based upon fallacious reasoning unsupported by research.
Robert Sampson, a Harvard professor of sociology and former president of the American Criminological Society, published a study in 2008 in the aftermath of the murder of three teenagers in Newark by undocumented immigrants.
HISPANICS LESS PRONE TO CRIME
In the study of 3,000 individuals in Chicago, including undocumented immigrants, regression analysis found that Hispanic-Americans do better on many social indicators than socioeconomic factors predict.
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