QuantativeBrah@QuantMashine · Sep 28, 2026

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

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Summary

A researcher is scraping daily UK court data to analyze patterns in names of defendants appearing in court, inferring ethnicity from first and surnames to analyze disparities in the criminal justice system. They've published day 26 findings comparing the demographic composition of court appearances against census data and using name-based ethnicity inference tools.

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The UK government may not want to crime release data broken down by ethnicity. I have been scraping daily court data to get first and surnames of all people who appeared in court in the country. This is day 26 here what i found: 🧵
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Top most over represented firstnames
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Top most over represented surnames
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QuantativeBrah@QuantMashine · Sep 25, 2026
The UK government have not released costs to the UK tax payer based on country of origin. Luckily other european nations have (Norway, Denmark, Holland). Lets apply there finding to the UK to get an estimate of cost to the UK tax payer: 🧵
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Sources (1/2) Court lists: xhibit.justice.gov.uk 2021 Census TS012/TS022: nomisweb.co.uk Baby names: ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati… MoJ ages: gov.uk/government/col…
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Sources (2/2) Surname freq: forebears.io/england/surnam… names-dataset: github.com/philipperemy/n… ethnicolr: github.com/appeler/ethnic… Check vs Companies House: …te.company-information.service.gov.uk/search/disqual…
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QuantativeBrah@QuantMashine · Sep 29, 2026
Day 27, still no crime data releasing by the UK Gov so releasing the next best thing. scraped court data analysed by origins of names: 🧵