Interesting. It also looks like the number of precincts reporting hate crimes has gone up by ~5% as well. It looks like the population covered from the participation tables increased 5.7% from 2016 so per capita it looks like a ~11% increase which is pretty significant.
Interestingly anti-black, anti-gay and anti-Muslim are all down by % compared to 2016 numbers. anti-Protestant, anti-Mormon, anti-Semetic and, anti-Sikh increased by % (not necessarily by raw number)
Another interesting tidbit is that anti-male hate crimes tripled while anti-female hate crimes remained constant. (total count of both is < 50)
It could be that reporting of hate crimes rose as, due to the polarisation of politics, more people now consider certain opinions to be hate crimes. Last year the SPLC added anti-FGM campaigner Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Islamic reform advocate Maajid Nawaz to their list “anti-Muslim extremists”.
It's quite findable in any search engine, which would have taken you less time than asking me. Also the SPLC backed down after they were sued, which you'll also find multiple sources for.
I think more people may be reporting to the FBI, rather than the FBI being over zealots.
Nope, it's because more hate crimes were committed.
"The suspect in that [shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 and wounded six] has been charged with dozens of federal hate crimes, and that one incident alone accounted for nearly as many hate crime killings as were recorded all of last year in the United States: 15."
>more people now consider certain opinions to be hate crimes
Is there any reason to believe that?
Your cherry-picked example was specifically refuted:
"Anti-Islamic hate crimes declined 11 percent last year"
SPLC did what you claim, but later removed the entire list of anti-Muslim extremists and issued an apology to Nawaz. [1]
There were a bunch of threats to Jewish centers and then all these articles about the rise of white supremacy in the age of Trump, and then they arrest some Jewish Israeli teen for it... so maybe take it with a grain of salt
17% seems like an insanely large increase and I'm doubtful that there was an increase of that magnitude wen other crime decreased.
A few cities changing their nonofficial default policy on how they prosecute certain kinds of crimes could easily account for a net change of 1000 or so instances. DAs are often elected positions so they often change these sorts of default stances on mundane policy as way to make their statistics look more politically convenient. Alternatively, reporting could have gotten better so hate crimes that were not previously reported may now be reported.
Of course there's always year to year changes in these sorts of things but a 17% increase in the face of a net decrease of other violent crime seems anomalous. Remember, these are reported hate crimes, not convictions for hate crimes.
So exactly how many people need to be beaten or murdered for the act of existing before it counts as a lot?
Also if the number of hate crimes has increased while the average rate of violent crime has decreased it means that the /relative/ rate of hate crimes has increased even further. This isn’t anomalous, it’s a simply that in the face of a long term decrease in violent crime, various minorities have become an increasingly “acceptable” target for many people. Not helped by a group of politicians who demonize multiple minorities as part of there basic political platform, including the claim that people who vote against them aren’t “real Americans”.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 31.5 ms ] threadInterestingly anti-black, anti-gay and anti-Muslim are all down by % compared to 2016 numbers. anti-Protestant, anti-Mormon, anti-Semetic and, anti-Sikh increased by % (not necessarily by raw number)
Another interesting tidbit is that anti-male hate crimes tripled while anti-female hate crimes remained constant. (total count of both is < 50)
Source please? Also, any evidence to suggest that the FBI is doing the same?
I think more people may be reporting to the FBI, rather than the FBI being over zealots.
"The suspect in that [shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 and wounded six] has been charged with dozens of federal hate crimes, and that one incident alone accounted for nearly as many hate crime killings as were recorded all of last year in the United States: 15."
>more people now consider certain opinions to be hate crimes
Is there any reason to believe that?
Your cherry-picked example was specifically refuted:
"Anti-Islamic hate crimes declined 11 percent last year"
SPLC did what you claim, but later removed the entire list of anti-Muslim extremists and issued an apology to Nawaz. [1]
[1] https://www.splcenter.org/splc-statement
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-israel-ma...
A few cities changing their nonofficial default policy on how they prosecute certain kinds of crimes could easily account for a net change of 1000 or so instances. DAs are often elected positions so they often change these sorts of default stances on mundane policy as way to make their statistics look more politically convenient. Alternatively, reporting could have gotten better so hate crimes that were not previously reported may now be reported.
Of course there's always year to year changes in these sorts of things but a 17% increase in the face of a net decrease of other violent crime seems anomalous. Remember, these are reported hate crimes, not convictions for hate crimes.
Also if the number of hate crimes has increased while the average rate of violent crime has decreased it means that the /relative/ rate of hate crimes has increased even further. This isn’t anomalous, it’s a simply that in the face of a long term decrease in violent crime, various minorities have become an increasingly “acceptable” target for many people. Not helped by a group of politicians who demonize multiple minorities as part of there basic political platform, including the claim that people who vote against them aren’t “real Americans”.