For anyone to know whether or not your neighbor uttered racism would require us to know where you live and what the demographics of crime are in that area.
Street crime is typically committed by the lowest economic level of a society, and if you're area has been flooded with immigrants from Latin America, then there may indeed be a disproportionate Latino element in the data.
I lived in Albuquerque for a decade, and there is certainly not an anti-Latino or anti-Native bias there. If anything, it would be closer to a refuge city during all the perturbations that Arizona underwent with the illegal border crossings there. Car theft shot through the roof. Violent crimes increased and breakins became the norm.
As a result, I didn't see racism evident when I was there, even though minority (not a minority there) increased and was talked about everywhere.
Your neighbor would have been more convincing if she did more than ask. If there is an increase in Latino crime as a percentage of the whole, she may have only been revealing her bias about who is likely a criminal by profile, which is something quite different from racism.
JUB has its own history of bigotry, with members referring to heterosexuals as "breeders", accusing bisexuals of being "self-hating closeted" gays, equating GOP voting witth racists, and allowing anti-American cultural attacks while forbidding comments about the nationality of those attacking American culture. Bigotry sucks, but racism needs a little more than the discussion of race as a component of criminality. JUB is also a frequent source of depicting the right as foam-spitting rabid racists instead of the vast majority of voters who are in the center, and have no strong leanings, but have hot button issues like abortion, crime, sexualization of educational content, etc. Having a narrower view of society than those on the extremes just makes you nigh invisible in the media, and especially on JUB.
Just as some "activists" cite racial disparity in criminal statistics as "proof" of racism, many more cite the same data as proof of racial attitudes that follow poverty and culture to justify theft, drugs, and violence.
