Are hate crimes up? Or are they down? Does it depend on who's doing the reporting? https://www.bostonglobe.com/2019/11/14/opinion/are-hate-crimes-up-or-down-government-has-no-idea/ Are hate crimes up or down? The government has no idea By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated November 14, 2019, 3:10 p.m. An emergency worker helps an injured person after a neo-Nazi drove his car into a group of counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. in 2017. Victims of the attack were not included in federal hate crime statistics.STEVE HELBER/AP ON TUESDAY, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its annual report on hate crime. The total number of such crimes tabulated by the bureau in 2018 was down from the year before — it dropped from 7,175 to 7,120 — so you might have thought the report would be covered as a good-news story. But hate crime statistics are invariably spun as evidence that things are getting worse, and the headlines fit the usual pattern: New York Times: “Hate-crime violence hits 16-year high, FBI reports” Los Angeles Times: “Latinos and transgender people see big increases in hate crimes, FBI reports” https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/hate-crimes-a-reality-check/ Hate Crimes: A Reality Check By PETER KIRSANOW November 14, 2019 12:11 PM President Donald Trump delivers remarks in Lexington, Kentucky, November 4, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, of which I’m a member, released a report yesterday entitled “In the Name of Hate: Examining the Federal Government’s Role in Response to Hate Crimes.” The report appears to lend credence to the Left’s narrative that the U.S. is enduring a wave of white supremacist hate crimes spurred by the election of Donald Trump. The practical effect of the report is to malign supporters of the president as violent extremists and portray the nation as a whole as intrinsically racist. The proposed solution, unsurprisingly, is greater federal involvement in local law enforcement, increased classification of crimes as “hate crimes” subject to federal prosecution, and curtailment of First Amendment freedoms. The report is grievously flawed. [/QUOTE]
The presidents right hand man Steven Miller is being outed now for his long term white supremacist correspondence with a female member of the Breitfart staff.
