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QuantativeBrah@QuantMashine · Sep 4, 2026

The UK government may not want to crime release data broken down by ethnicity. I have been scraping daily the to get…

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A user has been scraping UK court appearance data daily to analyze surnames and claims this reveals patterns about overrepresented groups in the criminal justice system. They argue the UK government is avoiding publishing ethnicity-broken-down crime data and plan to continue collecting a year's worth of this data to highlight the issue.

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  1. #1

    The UK government may not want to crime release data broken down by ethnicity. I have been scraping daily the xhibit.justice.gov.uk/court_lists.htm to get first and surnames all all people who appeared in court Here what i found: 🧵

  2. #2

    In the last 11 days i have got 9295 unique people. The surnames that appear in court the most are as follows.

  3. #3

    If we look at the most over represented surnames based on total uk population a pattern begins to emerge

  4. #4

    I will be posting daily updates of the scraped name and aim to get a whole years worth of data. This is proof the UK government would rather bury its head in the sand than address the issue.

  5. #5
    QuantativeBrah@QuantMashine · Sep 4, 2026

    Court adjourned for the day. Lets take a look at the data: 🧵