Reasoning

• The claim is extremely broad and vague. It does not specify which “authorities,” what kind of “crimes,” which “minorities,” or what “blaming” means (e.g., individual false accusations, media narratives, or statistical classification). Without a clear, measurable definition, the claim is difficult to evaluate against available evidence.
• No fact-checks or peer-reviewed studies were found documenting a systematic, decades-long pattern of law enforcement, courts, or other authorities deliberately attributing crimes committed by minorities to white people.
• The body of research on racial disparities in the U.S. criminal justice system points in the opposite direction: Black and Hispanic people are disproportionately arrested, convicted, and wrongfully convicted compared with white people, and Black defendants are more likely to receive severe sentences and to be exonerated after convictions involving police misconduct¹²³.
• The only remotely related phenomenon is the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting practice, prior to 2013, of classifying most Hispanic offenders as “white” in the race category, which inflated aggregate statistics of crimes attributed to white people. However, this was a data-collection methodology issue, not authorities intentionally blaming individual white people for specific crimes committed by minorities⁴.
• Because the claim is too sweeping and undefined to test with the available sources, it cannot be assigned a defensible validity percentage.

Overall validity: Unknown

1. What If They Were White? The Differential Arrest Consequences of Victim Characteristics for Black and White Co-offenders
2. Criminal Justice Fact Sheet
3. [PDF] Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States, 2022
4. Race and crime in the United States