Race
Race was not a prominent aspect in the Times’ reporting on counterfeiting. As a matter of fact, it was only mentioned in eight of the releases that were collected for this exhibit. Many of these eight cases have white offenders, with some having ties to an Italian-American mafia. The other white alleged criminals are foreigners, hailing from Austria in one article and France in another. Interestingly, the latter was holding onto over $800,000 in Haitian money.
Two of the remaining publications where race was noted had a black alleged offender, one of which was casting spurious coins and the other was simply found with some on his person. The first of these wrote in a good bit of detail about how the arrested man was tied to a gang that recently moved their headquarters into the District while the other only mentioned his race.
Similar to the page on gender, there was never any mention of victims or their race