DOJ concedes that it does not get reports from all police departments, and that what it gets covers only 79.3 percent of the American population. However, even the places that do count hate crimes do it in wildly inconsistent ways. No fewer than 13,022 departments sent in information, so there was plenty of room for inconsistency, and of those departments, no fewer than 11,290 reported no bias crimes at all.
One might conclude that the hate-free departments are in out-of-the way, homogeneous places where everyone gets along, but no. Atlanta, for example, reported no hate. In fact, all 2.4 million people who lived Cobb, DeKalb, and Fulton Counties were free of hate. The 2.5 million Floridians who live in Miami-Date County and the 1.8 million in Broward County were equally hate free. The 1.3 million people of Hillsborough County, which contains Tampa, were just as fortunate, as were the 900,000 North Carolinians who live in the county that contains Raleigh and the 780,000 people of San Mateo County, California.
Atlanta: too busy to hate
New Orleans had only two hate crimes, and Philadelphia’s population of 1.5 million produced only 11.
Seattle, Washington (population 627,000; 85 hate crimes) and Lexington, Kentucky (population 302,000; 41 hate crimes) are, according to this report, some of the nastiest places in America, with per capita hate-crime rates that are
19 times that of Philadelphia,
26 times that of Chicago, and
85 times that of Baltimore. It is easy to imagine majority-white police departments earnestly tracking down hate; the police in Baltimore and Philadelphia have their hands full fighting crime.
Lexington, Kentucky: a nasty place to live.
Even within the same state, there are strange disparities. The populations of Memphis and Nashville are about the same, but Memphis had 61 hate crimes to Nashville’s 10. Dallas, Boston, and Louisville are a few of the cities that didn’t bother to send in reports at all.
Obviously, this report is meaningless. Every year DOJ puts it out because Congress requires it by law. Every so often Congress adds new categories of victims for the police to track: handicapped people, homosexuals, Muslims. Police officers can’t stand this kind of paperwork, and plenty of them probably just don’t do it. The DOJ bureaucrats who actually have to compile the crazy stuff they get from the field are bound to know that the report they are writing is a farce, but they get paid anyway.
Hate Crime Statistics, 2012 is a perfect example of the confusion and futility that ensue when a multi-racial country refuses to accept the most obvious facts about race.
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