I spent about thirty minutes plowing through these references, trying to figure out where they lumped "Hispanic" in that classification. I have seen them plugged into both the "white" and "other" categories in these things. One would think this would have been explained in footnotes, or something.

This is the only thing I could find on this FBI page:

According to 2002 arrest data, by sex, males comprised 89.2 percent of all those arrested for murder. (See Table 42.) By race, blacks accounted for 50.0 percent of the murder arrestees; whites, 47.7 percent; and other races (American Indian or Alaskan Native; and Asian or Pacific Islander) made up 2.3 percent of the murder arrestees. (See Table 43.)

In another set of statistics, check out footnote 3:

3 The race groups, white, black, Asian or Pacific Islander, and American Indian or Alaska Native, include persons of Hispanic and non-Hispanic origin. Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race. Death rates for the American Indian or Alaska Native and Asian or Pacific Islander populations are known to be underestimated. See Appendix II, Race, for a discussion of sources of bias in death rates by race and Hispanic origin.

I think Hispanics are being lumped in as "white" on some of these charts. If they were under "other," does a 3.5 percent homicide by gang violence compared to the other races make any sense at all?

Anybody have more information on this?