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Analysis finds prejudice-motivated attacks down in major American cities
By Masood Farivar @ VOANews.com, Aug. 10
WASHINGTON — After four years of sharp increases, hate crimes in most major American cities fell during the first half of 2018, preliminary police data show.
The total number of hate incidents in the country’s six most populous cities declined by nearly 15 percent from January through June, according to police department data collected by Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at the California State University at San Bernardino.
Among the six major cities, four — New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Phoenix — posted sharp declines, while Houston and Philadelphia reported higher numbers. Hate crime data collected from eight other large cities showed a similarly mixed picture, with an overall slight downward trend.
The declines are significant if they hold, because they follow four years of increases in hate crimes in the nation's top 10 cities, an uptrend many experts expect to continue amid an increasingly polarized political environment and a rise in white nationalism, among other factors [.....]
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If you are part of one of the target groups of hate crimes, you focus on the fact that hate crimes are underreported and that violent hate crimes are increasing. There was a recent white supremacist march in Portland. A white supremacist march is scheduled for D.C. on the anniversary of the deadly white supremacy march in Charlottesville, Virginia. There is nothing that comforts you. The reports that come out in 2019 that analyze hate crimes in 2018 will be important. We may get a suggestion of the major ethnic targets of violent hate crimes, but we have to remember that the data is incomplete. We need better measurements.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 08/11/2018 - 10:49pm
The other part of the article you skipped:
....Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, said it was too early to predict whether the multiyear uptrend in hate crimes would be reversed in 2018.
“The bottom line is we’re quite happy that in some cities hate crimes are down, but they’re not down in all of them and you can’t really make a full-year prediction, particularly at a time when we’re so polarized with only the half year in,” Levin said.
Levin said there is a “cyclicality” to hate crimes, with the latter quarters of the year showing a larger number of incidents. He also noted that while overall hate crimes fell in major cities, those involving violence, including assault and aggravated assault, rose.
Hate crime laws might be making a difference, at least in the sense that some of the more minor types of hate crimes are decreasing in certain areas, while the more hard, violent ones are going up,” he said.
by NCD on Sun, 08/12/2018 - 12:08am
It’s easy to ignore this part of the article if you are not a possible target.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 08/12/2018 - 2:31pm
Rmrd: please do not read ideological intent into my choice of excerpts when I post articles "In the News", as I do so expecting people to click through and read the whole article. As a matter of fact, most ot the time, I try to pick something that will tempt people to click through and read the rest.
NCD: thanks for adding more excerpt for the nuance. In general it would be great if more people jumped in and did this to add nuance, we can do that as a team but one person cannot post full articles without Wolraich getting in trouble.
Edit for typos.
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/12/2018 - 4:56pm