[user-the-name]

No, it is the question that is racist. The assumption that because of your ethnicity, you would have some kind of specific level of criminality. That is extremely racist.

[NoImmatureAdHom]

You're assuming a causal relationship when the claim is correlational. The claim is not that because of a person's ethnicity that person will commit crimes at a certain rate, the claim is that you can make a good guess about criminality based on ethnicity. That is to say, there is a correlation. Which is unambiguously true--just look up the numbers. Only takes a moment.

In either case, whether it's racist or not is irrelevant to the issue at hand.

[user-the-name]

> the claim is that you can make a good guess about criminality based on ethnicity

Yes. That is the claim that is racist.

[NoImmatureAdHom]

It is empirically true. It is, of course, possible for things to be both true and racist, for some definition of racist.

[user-the-name]

The fact that you just stop the train of thought there is the racist part.

[NoImmatureAdHom]

What would be the non-racist thing to do?

[user-the-name]

Actually look for the real factors beyond "ethnicity".