Bigot Bingo

I am a shameless lover of the NY Post's Police Blotter. The best thing about it is guessing what the race of the accused perpetrator in a crime.
There is a rule in journalism that one is not supposed to identify the race of the arrested unless it is directly connected with the story. This is why newspapers will name a suspect's clothing, their approximate height and weight, and what neighborhood they are from. The papers can roughly identify physical appearance. But the best way of ID-ing is usually their race.
This is why mothers name their baby's names that make it obvious who they are.
In Hispanic neighborhoods, especially Puerto Ricans, half the last names of suspects seem to be Maldonado. If I could get a San Jose phone books probably half of it would be filled with Maldonados.
The babies names are usually Angel, Miguel, Jose, and of course Jesus. If you ever want to see Christ return, try Jesus in New York. He's everywhere.
Then there are the African-Americans. When I was a kid the black students generally had the same first names as white kids. Paul, Larry, Charles etc. Now it's whatever odd name their mothers can imagine. Lots of D's. D'quan, DuTroy, DeCon roach spray.
Also of course the Ls. LeBron, Lontel, LaQuan etc.
It does make NFL more interesting, with guys named Pac-Man and Antoine Randel-El.
With white guys, look at the Italians busted in police stings. When I was covering police in Trenton, I would go through to arrest docket every day.
Most of them were young and arrested on bullshit possession of a controlled dangerous substance. That meant crack.
Every once in a while, you'd get guys from Philly who were middle aged and had a vowel at the end of their names. Can anybody guess what profession they were in?

But I can't wait until kids now come of age, of crime age. They all have these precious special names that their parents most have gotten from soap operas.
Grant, Harrison, Wesley, Spencer, Brant, Dylan a million times; Lord King Richard the VII.
I don't know when newspapers started the policy of not naming a suspect's color. I guess they thought it would fuel bigotry to do so.
That leaves you the reader with name and address/neighborhood of their homes. TV news often broadcasts pictures of the suspect. But by that time you've usually got a mental picture. Its less than Bingo, more like connect the dots.