Hate crimes rose 17% in 2017, according to new FBI data
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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)
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]
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”.