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Feb. 18, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Fake News from the FBI — the 2017 Hate Crimes Report
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
The FBI just issued its hate crimes report for 2017.
There were reportedly 7,106 bias incidents, and this was a 17% increase over 2016.
This has caused much hand-wringing, and, of course, Donald Trump is to blame.
National Public Radio...
Newsweek, the San Francisco District Attorney, all said the increase was Mr. Trump's fault.
And NAACP said the president has, quote, simply emboldened individuals to be more open and notorious with their racial hatred.
The Las Vegas Sun wrote, and I quote, The fact is, the FBI's numbers don't mean much of anything.
And even if you took them seriously, you would find that black people are at least twice as likely as white people to commit hate crimes.
And they are five times more likely to commit hate crimes against homosexuals.
So what's wrong with the numbers?
First, the totals aren't even complete.
20 million Americans live in places where the police department doesn't ever file a report.
The entire state of Hawaii never files.
Also, as it happens, 10,000 police departments that never filed before started reporting to the FBI in 2017.
Those departments covered 16.5 million people.
Do you think maybe that increase in population covered by the 2017 figures contributed to this terrifying 17% increase that everyone wants to blame on President Trump?
A lot of places filed a report that says they had no hate crimes, and some of them are big cities.
Miami and Las Vegas filed what are called"zero reports." All told, 102 million Americans lived in zero incident jurisdictions.
I guess they just never heard of Donald Trump.
And hate crime totals bounce around all the time.
In 1995, when Bill Clinton was president, they were up 34% over the year before.
And was that Bill's fault?
In 2001, under W, hate crimes were up 21%.
And the fact is, this horrifying total for 2017 of 7,106 is less than the figures each year from 1995 to 2008.
Historically, you could claim hate crimes are down.
Are you getting the impression these numbers don't mean much?
Well, there's worse.
Let's compare states with similar populations.
Say, Kentucky.
And Louisiana, with about 4.5 million people each.
Which state do you think had more hate crimes?
Louisiana? Wrong.
Louisiana had 30 hate crimes, and Kentucky had 432.
Kansas and Mississippi have almost the same number of people, but Kansas had 20 times as many hate crimes.
Alabama and South Carolina are both southern states.
Both have about 5 million people.
But South Carolina reported 10 times as many hate crimes as Alabama.
Does this make sense?
No. Obviously, states and cities have wildly different ways of classifying and reporting hate crimes.
A 17% change in one year means almost exactly nothing.
But it's another excuse to call Donald Trump a hate monger.
Part of the problem is that only suspected hate crimes go into this report.
The police think it might have been, in the FBI's words, motivated in whole or in part by bias.
Plenty of so-called hate crimes turn out to be hoaxes.
If police file a report on what turns out to be a hoax, do they file a retraction later?
No. If the figures in the report were for actual convictions, They might mean something, but they're not.
They're hunches.
And that helps explain why different states file such wildly different figures.
But there's even worse.
The main purpose of the hate crimes report is to take the temperature of American race relations.
It is true that as time went on, other biases got tacked on.
Now the police are supposed to tell the difference between bias against transgender people and non-gender conforming people.
The Obama administration also told police to look for bias crimes against Hindus, Buddhists, Mormons, and Jehovah's Witnesses.
I didn't realize there was a problem of bias against Jehovah's Witnesses.
But back to race.
The certified craziest thing about the report is that it counts Hispanic perpetrators as white.
The FBI is supposed to be figuring out who the race haters are, but doesn't distinguish between Hispanics and whites.
This is formal government policy.
You see this guy?
His name is Gustavo Cruz, and he is wanted by the FBI.
The FBI says he's white.
They know he's Hispanic, but racially, he is officially a white man.
Here's another white guy, wanted by the police.
Looks just like your great-grandfather who came over from Ireland, doesn't he?
And here's another fine white man the FBI wants you to be on the lookout for.
And so, if one of these fellas commits a hate crime, the FBI puts him down as a white man.
It's crazy, but that's what they do.
And so, when the New York Times tells you that fully 51% of the hate criminals in 2017 were white men, how many of them actually look like these guys?
They're officially white too.
And did you know that Arabs and Middle Easterners are officially white also?
The FBI says anti-Semitic hate crimes are on a shocking rise.
Might some of those so-called white anti-Semites look more like Yasser Arafat than George Bush?
So, how many white hate criminals aren't even white?
25%?
50%?
Nobody knows.
But let's assume they're all blonde and blue-eyed.
If whites are 62% of the population but commit 50.7% of the hate crimes, and blacks are 13% of the population and commit 21% of the hate crimes, simple math tells you that blacks are twice as likely as whites to be hate criminals,
even with the figures for whites inflated by including Hispanics and Arabs.
Most hate crimes are what's called intimidation.
The perp said something nasty.
But when it comes to physical attacks, blacks are 2.4 times more likely than whites to be hate criminals.
There were 15 reported cases of racially motivated murder in 2017.
Blacks were 5.5 times more likely than whites to be the killer.
Blacks were also four times more likely than whites, well, whites so-called, to commit anti-homosexual crimes and five times more likely to commit gender identity crimes, of which there were a reported 131.
Needless to say, the people yelling about Donald Trump and moaning about the 17% increase are not going to tell you any of this.
But you'll be glad to know that Hindus, atheists, And Jehovah's Witnesses appear to be safe from black bias.
Blacks didn't commit a single one of the 36 hate crimes reported against these groups.
Well, I hope I've given you some idea how nutty and useless this FBI report is.
A lot of baloney comes out of Washington.
But rarely is the baloney sliced so thick or piled so high as in this annual hate crimes report.
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