The FBI's latest annual report on hate crimes seemed to deliver more grim news about race relations in America, announcing a nearly 40% rise in anti-black hate crimes in 2020.
Some of the biggest increases in anti-black hate crimes occurred in Democratic Party strongholds yet, perhaps surprisingly, almost no increases were reported in major cities riven by the racially tinged protests and riots after George Floyd's murder.
The high evidentiary threshold required to prove a hate crime in court is illustrated by the fact that Derek Chauvin - the white cop cast as a racist convicted of murdering George Floyd last year - was not charged with a hate crime.
Whether the FBI's data over or understates the true number of hate crimes, the total number of reported anti-black hate crimes is relatively small.
This was the highest number of anti-black incidents recorded by the FBI since 2008, but at that time there were 13,690 law enforcement agencies submitting hate crime data, versus the 15,136 agencies reporting such data last year, reflecting the imprecise nature of hate crime statistics.
Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, cautioned that municipal hate crime data can be imperfect.
Jacob Kaplan, the chief data scientist in research on policing reform and accountability at Princeton University, explained in his book on the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting initiative that hate crimes are the most difficult category of crime to track at the national level because of reporting irregularities and the relative infrequency of hate crimes.
https://www.wnd.com/2021/10/fbi-biggest-hate-crimes-increases-democrat-strongholds/
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