By Arnold Ahlert
The FBI has released its 2012 list of
hate crime statistics, and much of the data clashes with the leftist narrative
that America remains besieged by increasing amounts of anti-black racism and
anti-Muslim bigotry. Yet the greater issue involves more than who is committing
what crime against which entity covered by hate crime statutes. Hate crime
statistics, and the law that prompts their collection, have promoted yet
another expansion of federal power at the expense of states and localities.
Before getting into the
numbers, the FBI explains that the Uniform Crime Reporting Program defines a
hate crime “victim” not just as an individual, but as “a business, an
institution, or society as a whole.” Moreover, a hate crime itself is defined as an
offense “against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an
offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin, or sexual
orientation.” In 2012, there were there were 7,164 hate crimes. The “victim”
breakdown reveals that 55.4 percent of those crimes are perpetrated against
persons, 41.8 percent against property, and the remaining 2.8 percent against
society at large. Read More »
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