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17% Increase in Hate Crimes?
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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. | |
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Likely Whites vs. Hate Crimes
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| 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. | |