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Fri May 04, 2012 7:53 am |
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The injustice of the Florida law and the lack of justice in this Florida town is resonating elsewhere. YES it will be a violent and hot summer!
FBI Report Notes Rise In Hate Crimes
by Deborah Tedford National Public Radio
November 23, 2009
The number of hate crimes against religious groups in the U.S. jumped more than 8 percent during 2008 — the most notable increase in a variety of hate crime statistics reported in data released Monday by the FBI.
In all, 7,783 hate crimes were included in the FBI's 2008 Hate Crime Statistics report. The report covers crimes involving a victim who was targeted because of race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin or disability.
The FBI's report reflects only the information gathered by participating law enforcement agencies. Experts warned that the numbers may reflect different standards for what constitutes a hate crime, as well as the inability of some law enforcement agencies to coordinate the report because of budget constraints.
"The most frightening thing about these numbers is what goes unrecorded," said Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, the Hispanic civil rights advocacy group.
Still, the data show a 2 percent overall increase in hate crimes over the previous year, and a rise in each individual category, with one exception: attacks based on ethnic bias or national origin. Crimes based on racial hatred made up the largest number of reported incidents. Last year, agencies across the U.S. reported 3,992 incidents in which someone was victimized because of race — a 3 percent increase from 2007.
Heidi Beirich, director of research at the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center, said she expected to see an increase in the targeting of African-Americans because of the uptick in hate group activity before the election of President Obama.
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The anti-black numbers jumped around the elections, but we know that doesn't reflect anywhere near what [the figures] actually are," said Beirich. She said experts have noted inconsistencies in some jurisdictions, such as the relatively small number of hate crimes reports in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, where there is a large black population and a history of racial intolerance.
Blacks have historically been the most frequently targeted group. The FBI report showed 73 percent of the victims of race-based hate crimes were black.
Poor Reporting Affects Accuracy
The biggest year-over-year increase was in attacks on religious groups, which rose from 1,400 in 2007 to 1,519 in 2008. Most of the reports involved crimes against Jewish people, although attacks against Catholics and "anti-other religion" showed the biggest percentage increase. Crimes against Muslims fell from 115 in 2007 to 105 this year, according to the report.
Most of the crimes involve vandalism and intimidation, but they also range from assault to rape and murder.
The FBI figures also showed that there were 1,297 incidents of crimes against gay people, up from 1,265 in 2007. That represents a more than 2 percent increase in the number of incidents.
But that crime may be under-reported, according to professor Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, because attacks on gay people are not recognized as hate crimes in some states. In addition, many victims do not want to make their sexual orientation public.
Illegal immigrants are also wary of involving law enforcement, said La Raza's Murguia. According to the FBI data, attacks on the basis of ethnicity and national origin went down in 2008 — from 1,007 in 2007 to 894 last year. Most of the victims in that category were Hispanic.
"We look at these numbers as the tip of the iceberg, and even then, the trend over the past five years is unmistakable," Murguia said.
The FBI does not report hate crime trends, saying differences in annual reports may be attributed to the number of agencies participating in the reporting. Of the 13,690 agencies that submitted data, only 2,145 agencies reported hate crimes in their communities.
Levin said authorities won't have a true picture of the number of hate crimes in the U.S. until reporting is standardized.
"There are problems regarding lack of uniformity and consistency of reporting," Levin said, that should be addressed in order to get a true picture of the problem. A federal survey of victims in 2005 showed there were 191,000 hate crimes in the United States, he said. |
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Fri May 04, 2012 1:19 pm |
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untanglingwebs
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FROM HATEWATCH SPLC
Anti-Latino Hate Crimes Spike in California in Possible Trend
Posted in Anti-Latino, Hate Crime by Mark Potok on August 12, 2011
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Anti-Latino hate crimes in California spiked up by almost 50% last year, the state’s attorney general’s office reported Wednesday. That dramatic rise, from 81 such crimes in 2009 to 119 in 2010, followed a decade of declines.
The numbers may be indicative of a renewed national rise in hate crimes directed at Latinos, who are often assumed to be undocumented immigrants. Nationally, FBI hate crime statistics showed a 40% rise in such crimes between 2003 and 2007, but that was followed by decreases in 2008 and 2009. The national numbers for the year 2010 are not expected to be released until November of this year.
The national hate crime numbers are notoriously sketchy, and only give a very rough indication of trends in hate crimes. However, many experts consider California particularly good at reporting hate crimes, so that state’s statistics are considered much more accurate than most others’. California, along with Arizona, has been the scene of much conflict between native Americans and immigrants, and if that conflict is heating up there, a similar pattern may be developing nationally.
California officials also reported that the number of hate crimes directed at black people, the LGBT community and Jews declined between 2009 and 2010.
The apparent national rise in anti-Latino hate crime between 2003 and 2007 coincided with some of the more virulent anti-immigrant rhetoric, much of it coming from “mainstream” nativists like then-CNN host Lou Dobbs and then-Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.). If a second national spike in hate crimes against Latinos has occurred since then, it’s not clear why. An increasing proportion of the nativist invective of the last couple of years in America has been directed at Muslims.
In a related report, the Department of Justice in June published a study, based on questionnaires sent to a statistically representative sample of the population rather than on police reports, that estimated the number of hate crime victimizations between 2003 and 2009 — an average of about 195,000 a year. An earlier DOJ study that used the same methodology — considered far more accurate than the hate crime statistics that are reported to the FBI each year — found an average 210,000 hate crime victimizations each year between 2000 and 2003. The apparent decline in hate crimes nationally followed the pattern of generally declining violent crime.
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Shadow Wolf said,
on August 12th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
“California, along with Arizona, has been the scene of much conflict between native Americans and immigrants,”
The amiguous term “native Americans” in this article doesn’t explicitly say which “Americans” are at “conflict with immigrants”. But we already know which group of Americans are ardent foes of immigrant/Latinos.
The so called “native Americans”(ergo not to be confused with Indigenous Native Americans) in this case are generally known as nativists, which comprised of “Americans” who are commonly associated with the Minuteman, Tea Pottiers, their rabid wing-nuts enablers/politicos and a host of other far right extremists groups, make up the vast majority.
Notwithstanding the fact that most Americans are somewhat anti-illegal immigration, yes Indigenous Native Americans included as welll as Blacks and native born Latinos.
Jon said,
on August 16th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
I can only hope for the day when the SPLC is defunct. You refuse to cover the racially-motivated attacks of whites by blacks across the nation and you refuse that the rise in anti-Latino hate crimes are also because they’re being targeted by blacks. You never cover the rise in attacks on Asians in this nation by blacks. Nope, the boogeyman always has to be white people of any age and gender.
MST said,
on August 18th, 2011 at 11:27 am
Please provide links.
Jazz said,
on August 18th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
“I can only hope for the day when the SPLC is defunct.”
Me, too, Jon. I look forward to the day that this and other hate-watch sites are no longer necessary. You are right, the bogeyman is not *always* white, but he is always much more empowered, above the law, wealthy enough to make the laws, and mostly not subject to the laws that his victims are strangled with.
So, along with you, I hope for a day when none of this will be true.
Marcia said,
on August 18th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
I don’t condone violence but I also don’t believe that trying to understand actions are condoning them. I suspect that with this struggling economy and the threatened cutbacks for those who need help the most (middle class and poor), that immigrants (particularly those viewed as illegals) will be seen as siphoning off diminishing funds and reducing even more the smaller pieces of the American pie. Unfortunate for everyone, especially when the people who could most pay their fair share will not.
Richard Farnsworth said,
on August 18th, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Why do you never mention the anger,hatred and acts of violence committed against and between Latinos and Blacks when it is well known that the greatest of bad blood ,especially in the Ca,Az,NM area is between those two groups?
Steet gangs in LA have long held intense hatred between those two races way out of porportion to anything committed by whites against either of those two?..Why do you select what you will print to make whites look the worst?
Sam Molloy said,
on August 19th, 2011 at 12:06 am
I read today in El Dia, and my Spanish is not that great, that Kentucky’s DMV no longer will take an ITIN number as documentation to register a vehicle. No law here says you have to have an SSN to register a vehicle, but the DMV on it’s own now requires a nine digit number or the computer won’t take it. That little bit of Fascist A###olism now greets people just trying to renew their tags.
A.D.M. said,
on August 19th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Jon and Richard Farnsworth, you two are stupid. Have any of you ever decided to look in the archives before coming down with a case of verbal diarrhea? About a month or two ago, SPLC had an article about federal charges being brought against a Mexican gang called Azusa 13 for trying to, in their words, “ethnically cleanse” Southern California towns of African-Americans. Last year, August 2010 to be exact, SPLC had an article about black folks committing hate crimes against so-called “Latinos” in the New York City borough of Staten Island. Jon and Richard Farnsworth, you two clowns should quit while you’re ahead and get a cure for your verbal diarrhea. It’s not SPLC’s fault there are white nationalists who want to be big and bad. Oh, and don’t try to deny you have some anti-black sentiments because your comments are a reflection of that sentiment
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A.D.M. said,
on August 19th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Jazz, are you being sarcastic?
Gareyes said,
on August 19th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
I have read on this website about gangs trying to ethnically cleanse their towns of African-Americans. we can all acknowledge there are conflicts within those communities but I don’t read anywhere that black or Latino politicians are going around stoking fears of other people. If anything, I hear their leadership calling for those communities to work together. Right-wing politicians are going around creating hysteria about immigrants and many of them also make obnoxious statements about the president’s race as well (Senator Coburn’s most recent comments) for instance. the fact is that conservative whites are much more likely to be in power, and to provide an aura of legitimacy towards racist attacks which are spread in mainstream media and have a greater reach than isolated incidents of blacks attacking other races or Latinos for that matter.
Sam Molloy said,
on August 19th, 2011 at 11:54 pm
Gareyes, I believe that the rich White Conservatives in power try to keep all us little folks fighting with each other to avoid our ganging up on them. |
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Fri May 04, 2012 1:25 pm |
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untanglingwebs
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There have recently been several racially motivated hate crimes that have received national attention. Trayvon Martin and the recent Tulsa shootings come quickly to mind. It may seem that there has been an increasing number of these within the past few years, and this observation is not an illusion. According to hate crime statistics published by the FBI, crimes based on an anti-black racial bias have increased as a proportion to the number of racial hate crimes committed.
From 1996 to 2007, the percentage of racial hate crimes committed due to anti-black sentiments was never above 70% (although it did come close at 69.7% in 1996). Since 2008, this percentage has topped 70% every year, peaking at 72.9% in 2008. This regrettable trend could possibly be attributed to several factors.
The first of these factors is the outcome of the 2008 presidential election. Despite much of the nation rejoicing in the election of an African American president after centuries of racism in America, many of us wondered shortly after the election of Barack Obama whether he would become the next president to be assassinated, the victim of a racist hate crime. While this has clearly not been the case, the historic event also seems to have triggered less favorable responses from those with anti-black sentiments: the committing of racially motivated hate crimes.
The second major factor that could be influencing the higher rate of hate crimes toward African Americans is the increasing proportion of minorities in the United States population, although this factor would presumably be affecting hate crimes toward other minority races as well (such as the recent murder of Shamai Alawadi). Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of the American population in the white racial category has been steadily declining since the 1930s, while the black and Hispanic populations have continued to grow significantly.
This fact could be causing uneasiness among whites about becoming a minority in this country, who may feel that minorities are encroaching on their historical territory and releasing their anger through violence.
While neither of these factors has been formally studied in conjunction with racial hate crimes, they both have a definite empirical correlation to the rise in racial hate crimes in recent years. I’m sure many people would like to point out that the actual number of victims of anti-black crimes has been generally declining throughout the past decade. This fact is indeed true (and can be found on the same data tables produced by the FBI), but should not be considered as a means to prove that racially motivated crimes have not increased.
The more recent racial crimes have simply been more concentrated on crimes that only affect one victim, such as rape or murder, rather than more broad offenses that may affect larger groups of people. Despite the number of victims decreasing, the nature of such hate crimes has grown more violent, thus making them much more serious than those of previous years. Take for example the cases of 2009, when there were eight racially motivated murders and nine racially motivated rapes, and 2006, when there were only three people murdered and six people raped for racial reasons. There were clearly more violent crimes occurring in 2009 than 2006, but the number of victims was much lower in 2009 (4793 and 5449, respectively). For this reason, the quantitative number of victims cannot be used as an accurate measure of racially motivated criminal activity.
The situation of more frequent and violent hate crimes clearly needs to be addressed by policymaking officials, although their power in this circumstance is unfortunately limited. The only viable option for reducing hate crimes is to increase the severity of punishment offenders receive. A hate crime perpetrator should be subject to an automatic 10% to 20% increase in the jail time to be served or the fine to be paid. This would help deter them from committing future hate crimes as well as to discourage other potential offenders. Along with this initiative, law enforcement authorities should make sure each crime that has a possibility of being committed due to racial bias is thoroughly investigated so that appropriate action can be taken.
Since 2008, hate crimes against the African American population have increased to a higher level than any time in the previous decade. This increase in hate crimes motivated by racial bias is both unfortunate and unacceptable. Congress and the Obama administration should take steps to decrease the frequency of these crimes by enhancing federal legislation on the subject, in the hopes that it would prevent the continued occurrence of these types of crimes.
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Fri May 04, 2012 1:34 pm |
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twotap
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Injustice of the Florida law???? WTF is that. “Stand Your Ground” simply says, if you have a right to be somewhere and if you’re not breaking the law, you may defend yourself to prevent imminent death or bodily harm. You don’t have an obligation to retreat as was the law before castle doctrine and stand your ground. Check to see how many states have put this law on the books Mi included.
Also not surprised to see you buy into the PC correct crap that whites are attacking blacks more then blacks attack whites. Perhaps after obama and his racist attorney general get booted we will see some of these black on white crimes actually investigated for what they really are and labled correctly as "Racially Motivated Hate Crimes" Until then we will watch the racist lamestream media hide all they can and liberals such as yourself reporting nonsense. |
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