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Originally Posted by sammy the sage
mirror on the wall...HCAP still LACKS one after all....
re-read my statement.....with 6 years of reporting NOT reported....no way to know if your/reported SAID statement is true or false....there-in LIES THE rub....
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The FBI acquires data from more than just 2,700 city police and county sheriff’s
From the AP....
Last year, only 2,172 law enforcement agencies out of about 15,000 participating agencies across the country reported hate crime data to the FBI, the bureau said. A
nd while the number of agencies reporting hate crimes increased, the number of agencies participating in the program actually dropped from the year before. A large number of police agencies appeared not to submit any hate crime data, which has been a consistent struggle for Justice Department officials.
And if you look at the AP page there is a bar chart showing 2019 was the worst since 2001.
Of course we can get a comparative understanding of historical hate crimes.
