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Hate crimes in the United States increased last year, the FBI says
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<blockquote data-quote="ThatRobGuy" data-source="post: 71990470" data-attributes="member: 123415"><p>I don't doubt that there may be an increase in crimes motivated by protected characteristics...</p><p></p><p>However, here's my major issue with, not so much the concept of hate crimes, but with the implementation.</p><p></p><p>1) Even right from the mouth of an associate FBI director, there was never any intent to consistently apply these laws.</p><p></p><p><em>The FBI's hate crimes statistics for 1993, which similarly reported 20% of all hate crimes to be committed against white people, prompted Jill Tregor, assistant regional FBI director, to decry it as "an abuse of what the hate crime laws were intended to cover", stating that the white victims of these crimes were employing hate crime laws as a means to further penalize minorities.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p>2) The term "hate crime" much like the term "terrorism" has been somewhat watered down by including activities encompassing a wide range of severity levels which can tend to cause obfuscation when discussing the issue. For example, we'd obviously agree that murdering a person for racial reasons is far worse than say, spray-painting a swastika on a place of worship, yes? </p><p></p><p>So when both are simply given the blanket title of "hate crime", you can have a scenario (and these are just example numbers) in which in:</p><p>2015: you have 3 racially motivated murders, and 3 acts of vandalism against a place of worship. 2016: you have no racially motivated murders, but 10 acts of vandalism.</p><p></p><p>If you're just reporting a tally, then it reports as "we had 10 hate crimes reported, up from 6 the previous year" (makes it sound like the issue is getting worse), when in reality, the fact that it was only just property crime and there were no murders would indicate that the situation in 2016 is actually better than in 2015.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Now, if we had something like a tiered system for hate crime reporting...for example classifications 1-3... 1 being petty things like verbal-related attacks, 2 being things a tad more severe like property damage, and 3 being things that actually do physical harm... I think that would give everyone a much clearer picture of the trend and whether or not things are truly getting worse or improving.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThatRobGuy, post: 71990470, member: 123415"] I don't doubt that there may be an increase in crimes motivated by protected characteristics... However, here's my major issue with, not so much the concept of hate crimes, but with the implementation. 1) Even right from the mouth of an associate FBI director, there was never any intent to consistently apply these laws. [I]The FBI's hate crimes statistics for 1993, which similarly reported 20% of all hate crimes to be committed against white people, prompted Jill Tregor, assistant regional FBI director, to decry it as "an abuse of what the hate crime laws were intended to cover", stating that the white victims of these crimes were employing hate crime laws as a means to further penalize minorities.[/I] [I] [/I] 2) The term "hate crime" much like the term "terrorism" has been somewhat watered down by including activities encompassing a wide range of severity levels which can tend to cause obfuscation when discussing the issue. For example, we'd obviously agree that murdering a person for racial reasons is far worse than say, spray-painting a swastika on a place of worship, yes? So when both are simply given the blanket title of "hate crime", you can have a scenario (and these are just example numbers) in which in: 2015: you have 3 racially motivated murders, and 3 acts of vandalism against a place of worship. 2016: you have no racially motivated murders, but 10 acts of vandalism. If you're just reporting a tally, then it reports as "we had 10 hate crimes reported, up from 6 the previous year" (makes it sound like the issue is getting worse), when in reality, the fact that it was only just property crime and there were no murders would indicate that the situation in 2016 is actually better than in 2015. Now, if we had something like a tiered system for hate crime reporting...for example classifications 1-3... 1 being petty things like verbal-related attacks, 2 being things a tad more severe like property damage, and 3 being things that actually do physical harm... I think that would give everyone a much clearer picture of the trend and whether or not things are truly getting worse or improving. [/QUOTE]
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