Quote: @"BarrNone55" said:
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2017-ha...sed-111318
Law enforcement reported 7,175 hate crimes to UCR in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. Although the numbers increased last year, so did the number of law enforcement agencies reporting hate crime data—with approximately 1,000 additional agencies contributing information. The report, Hate Crime Statistics, 2017, includes hate crime information for last year, broken down by location, offenders, bias types, and victims.
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The FBI is working with law enforcement partners across the country to encourage reporting of hate crime statistics. Next year, FBI personnel will provide training for law enforcement officers on how to identify bias-motivated incidents and report that data to the FBI’s UCR Program. Additionally, the Department of Justice launched a new hate crimes webpage, which has information for law enforcement on reporting incidents.
When I read this statement that the FBI put out in the above
link that BarrNone55 provided, how I interpret this is that the FBI is trying
to increase the number of hate crimes reported, both by increasing the number
of agencies providing data and by increasing the percentage of crimes that are
labeled as hate crimes. They are
changing how they are measuring hate crimes and it brings into question how
comparable the numbers are from year to year.
Just looking at the 2017 statistics, there were 7106
incidents that were labeled as hate crimes by the FBI. Out of a population of 327.2 Million, that
means that 1 person in every 46,000 people commits a hate crime if you assume a
different person commit each hate crime.
Lets assume that Donald Trump is somehow activating the extra 17% of
people (roughly a thousand extra people within that 327.2 Million population) to
commit hate crimes. So Trump has influenced
1 person in Minneapolis to commit a hate crime.
What does that mean for the everyday person? If Donald Trump is influencing .002% of the
population to commit a hate crime, does that automatically correlate to you, me,
half the country being 17% more racist? I
don’t think that’s how this works. I
think it’s very possible that a super small amount of people are enabled by his
boorishness, but most people are heading in the less racist direction. If anyone has any facts that are more applicable
to the volume of racism (or other isms) that a non-trivial amount of people are
experiencing, I’d love to see those numbers.
