[lbo-talk] Quick question on U.S. hate crime stats by state

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Apr 24 12:11:52 PDT 2010


On Apr 24, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 24, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Julio Huato wrote:
>>
>>> I get the following ranking by state. The top (NJ) has the highest
>>> incidence of reported hate crimes in the U.S. AL the lowest.
>>
>> Maybe in Alabama hate crimes are classed as acts of civic
>> responsibility?
>
> Or maybe the cops do a better job of relieving civilians of that
> responnsibility? Though I would guess they do a pretty good job in
> NJ as
> well.

My guess is that the real answer is that "hate crimes" is a very spongy category. People are probably more likely to report them as such, and the cops willing to listen to them, in NJ than in Alabama. Just guessing.



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