In 2016, there were 271 more incidents deemed hate crimes than in 2015, with 257 more law enforcement agencies reporting.
As I pointed out when those data came out, "The number of hate crime classifications was higher in 2016 than in any of the four preceding years" but "Lower than in 2011 and significantly down from 2006-08." There were also fewer victims in 2016: 7,615, down from 9,652 in 2006.
A Bureau of Justice Statistics study found that "The rate of violent hate crime victimization" in 2015 "Was not significantly different from the rate in 2004" and that this "Held true for violent hate crimes both reported and unreported to police."
The FBI has been collecting human trafficking data since just 2013.
For a few years, these numbers, too, kept increasing as a growing number of agencies submitted the voluntary trafficking data to the feds.
Another measure people often reference is the number of "Cases" referred to the government-funded national human trafficking hotline, run by the Polaris Project.
Like the hate crime "Spike," this tells us nothing about the reality or prevalence of human trafficking.
http://reason.com/blog/2019/02/22/hate-crimes-and-human-trafficking
As I pointed out when those data came out, "The number of hate crime classifications was higher in 2016 than in any of the four preceding years" but "Lower than in 2011 and significantly down from 2006-08." There were also fewer victims in 2016: 7,615, down from 9,652 in 2006.
A Bureau of Justice Statistics study found that "The rate of violent hate crime victimization" in 2015 "Was not significantly different from the rate in 2004" and that this "Held true for violent hate crimes both reported and unreported to police."
The FBI has been collecting human trafficking data since just 2013.
For a few years, these numbers, too, kept increasing as a growing number of agencies submitted the voluntary trafficking data to the feds.
Another measure people often reference is the number of "Cases" referred to the government-funded national human trafficking hotline, run by the Polaris Project.
Like the hate crime "Spike," this tells us nothing about the reality or prevalence of human trafficking.
http://reason.com/blog/2019/02/22/hate-crimes-and-human-trafficking
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