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

Max B. Sawicky sawicky at verizon.net
Sat Apr 24 15:51:43 PDT 2010


Crime stats in general are spongy.

You can get more crime reported if people have more confidence in the police (better cops = more crime).

-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 4:48 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Quick question on U.S. hate crime stats by state

That would b my guess too.

Carrol

Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
> 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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