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Hate crimes in 2021 were at the highest level in over a decade. https://www.statista.com/chart/16100/total-number-of-hate-crime-incidents-recorded-by-the-fbi/

• defrost 4y ago
  Strictly speaking that's Reported hate crimes passed onto and recorded by the FBI. These details matter in Understanding Data 101 .. consult your history for lynchings made public on newspaper front pages and sold as postcards yet not reported as hate crimes.
  • 2devnull 4y ago
    Would we have even known about George Floyd without the video? Go on thinking we’ve eliminated racism. You’re factually incorrect.
    • defrost 4y ago
      You're not making any sense here. 1) I don't think "we" 've eliminated racism (who's 'we' here?) 2) It is factually correct that an increase in reporting of hate crime doesn't logically correlate with an increase (or decrease) in actual hate crime numbers. In recent decades in the US it is a sign that hate crime is being taken more seriously and being reported more often by local LEO's to the central FBI stats page. As you yourself acknowledge the US has known past issues with the reporting of hate crime and there's good reason to suspect that a high proportion of past sch crimes have gone unreported, to either local LEO's or to federal tally sheets. Note that from a crime stats PoV the US FBI database is barely adequate compared to crime logging in other G20 countries, it's riddled with issues and the FBI meta commentary acknowledges the shortcomings.