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The Asian numbers are difficult to credit. In 2020 there are 85,860 victimizations, and 55.9% by whites, so 47,996, and 16.6% by blacks, so 14,209.

In 2020 victimizations decline to 68,730, and 13.4% by whites, so 9,210. 56.8% by blacks, so 39,039. In other words, victimizations of Asians by whites declined fivefold, while victimizations by blacks nearly tripled.

In 2021 Asian victimizations increase to 107,990, 31.2% by whites, so 33,693, more than 3X the year before. 51.2% by blacks, so 55,615. That's pretty much the only year-on-year change in Asian victimization by race in your chart that is believable. It seems extremely unlikely that Asian victimization by whites fell by 500% in 2020 and then increased by <300% in 2021.

I understand that the figures in your chart marked by an exclamation point are based on fewer than 10 incidents, so should be interpreted with caution. But in the annual Asian victimization figures by race seem pretty dubious whether they are marked by an exclamation point or not.

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I included aggregated numbers between 2018-2021 to reduce sampling error.

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