delta1 wrote:
FBI Annual crime report for 2015: 5,850 hate crimes
FakeHateCrimes.org, fake hate crimes for 2015: 18 fake hate crimes
Less than one third of one percent, compared to actual hate crimes reported by law enforcement authorities
TMCTLT wrote:And this has what to do with what Al? ...
The media has been reporting that there has been a surge in reported hate crimes since Trump was elected, the implication being that Trump's election has motivated prejudiced people to act out against people they hate. We won't know the actual data until sometime next year when the FBI's Annual Crime Report comes out.
Fox, the most influential media outlet among the right and a strong supporter of Trump, disputes that claim about the spike in hate crimes. They attempt to do so by rolling out their fake left wing anti-Trump news media argument. Then as evidence that the surge in hate crime reported by the biased media is fake, Fox points out the numbers of fake hate crimes reported.
To be fair, I only included 2015 numbers, since that is the latest set of data I could find by the FBI, the agency entrusted with maintaining accurate crime data in the US. The numbers of fake hate crimes at the other website spiked in 2016, going up to nearly 50, still less than one percent of the number of reported hate crimes in 2015. That's a small number.
I'm just trying to be fair and balanced by pointing out both numbers, so people can decide for themselves whether or not hate crimes and fake hate crimes are newsworthy. To be honest, there are more serious crime numbers that occur everyday, like white collar crime in the business world and corruption in the political world. But issues of race and religion still generate strong feelings in America, so hate crimes get attention...