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TopicBlue states have twice as many hate crimes per capita per year than red states
The Great Muta 22
02/19/18 11:29:21 AM
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Sephiroth1288 posted...
The Great Muta 22 posted...
Fony posted...
- Georgia, Wyoming, South Carolina, Indiana, and Arkansas do not have ANY hate crime law on the books and these states are notorious for racially motivated violence even today(as well as religious and sexual orientation based violence). Especially SC, Georgia and Arkansas. So you can't track what does not get caught in the tracking system's net.


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That's interesting, because according to the FBI all those states have been reporting hate crimes. So who's lying, Fony or the FBI?


You. You're lying by misrepresenting the facts. Especially considering the FBI themselves says not to use the UCR to make any claims as it does not paint a complete picture nor does it provide the proper insight.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/ucr-statistics-their-proper-use

UCR data are sometimes used to compile rankings of individual jurisdictions and institutions of higher learning. These incomplete analyses have often created misleading perceptions which adversely affect geographic entities and their residents. For this reason, the FBI has a longstanding policy against ranking participating law enforcement agencies on the basis of crime data alone. Despite repeated warnings against these practices, some data users continue to challenge and misunderstand this position.

Data users should not rank locales because there are many factors that cause the nature and type of crime to vary from place to place. UCR statistics include only jurisdictional population figures along with reported crime, clearance, or arrest data. Rankings ignore the uniqueness of each locale. Some factors that are known to affect the volume and type of crime occurring from place to place are:

Population density and degree of urbanization.
Variations in composition of the population, particularly youth concentration.
Stability of the population with respect to residents; mobility, commuting patterns, and transient factors.
Economic conditions, including median income, poverty level, and job availability.
Modes of transportation and highway systems.
Cultural factors and educational, recreational, and religious characteristics.
Family conditions with respect to divorce and family cohesiveness.
Climate.
Effective strength of law enforcement agencies.
Administrative and investigative emphases on law enforcement.
Policies of other components of the criminal justice system (i.e., prosecutorial, judicial, correctional, and probational).
Citizens attitudes toward crime.
Crime reporting practices of the citizenry

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