Murder data
I read an overseas article that cross-tabulated homicide data by ethnicity for both the victim and the killer. I thought this was interesting, so asked for NZ equivalent data. Sadly it was declined on privacy grounds, but they did provide the data without the cross-tabulation.
For those interested the breakdown by ethnicity for homicide victims for the last ten years is:
- Māori 35%
- European 27%
- Unknown 22%
- Pacific 6.8%
- Asian 3.5%
- Indian 3.1%
- Middle Eastern 1.5%
- African 0.5%
- Hispanic 0.1%
- Fijian 0.1%
And the breakdown for homicide offenders is:
- Māori 48%
- European 30%
- Unknown 1.4%
- Pacific 15.0%
- Asian 2.6%
- Indian 2.9%
- African 0.1%
- Hispanic 0.1%
Note that if you kill multiple people, you get counted once for each death, so the European total include 50+ counts for Tarrant.