Biggest religious hate crimes on Jews, crimes on muslims rose in US

[Melech 9,900]

"When it comes to religious hate crimes, Jews and Jewish institutions were the biggest targets in America again last year, hands down.

But when it comes to hate crimes overall, the single biggest motivation by far was not religion at all; it was race—a situation that has prevailed for years.

Those are two of the takeaways the public can glean from the FBI’s recently released annual review of hate crimes for 2014.

And then there’s the good news: Hate crimes overall were down by almost 8% compared with the results in 2013 — except for hate crimes against Muslims and Muslim institutions, which rose by 14%. The number of hate crimes targeting Jews, meanwhile, fell slightly, by about 2.5%.

Critics have long warned against taking the annual statistical review of hate crimes released by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program too literally. The review, released November 16, is a database compiled from bias and hate crime counts submitted to the FBI by local police agencies across the country on a voluntary basis. Each local force uses its own methods for counting and categorizing. Studies by the Justice Department’s own Bureau of Justice Statistics, among others, suggest that the FBI numbers are consequently much lower than the real level of hate crimes. Police units in Hawaii, for example, do not participate in the program at all.

Still, many consider the annual review to be at least a helpful indicator of broad patterns. This year, some 86% of the nation’s nearly 18,000 law enforcement agencies submitted hate crime reports to the FBI, one of the highest percentages in recent years, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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The FBI found that rates for hate crimes fell by almost 8% last year, when more than 6,400 hate crimes were reported, compared with nearly 7,000 in 2013. According to the data, 47% of these 2014 hate crimes were motivated by racial prejudice. Crimes motivated by religious and sexual orientation were next, at 18.6% each. These were followed by crimes motivated by ethnicity (11.9%), gender identity (1.8%), disability (1.5%) and gender (0.6%).

Last year, as in previous years, Jews were the most frequent victims of reported crimes targeting members of a religious group. Of the 1,140 reported victims of anti-religious hate crimes, 648, or almost 57%, were Jewish. Looked at another way, of the 1,014 reported anti-religious hate crime incidents (some of which had multiple victims), 609, or slightly more than 60%, targeted Jews.

Where data details submitted by the local law enforcement agencies make it possible, the FBI report identifies perpetrators by race and ethnicity; but not by religion. Of the anti-Jewish hate crime perpetrators whose ethnicity could be identified, 87 were white and 20 were African American. Another 231 of the known offenders were of unknown race.

Muslims were the second most frequent target of anti-religious crimes. They were targeted in 154, or 15.2%, of such reported incidents. These crimes resulted in 184 victims, or 16.1% of the total"

 

Read more: http://forward.com/news/325988/jews-are-still-the-biggest-target-of-hate-crimes/#ixzz3tfJJNivv

 

Why do SJ never fight for Jews?

 

[Ronlop 6,882]

This is horrible

From experience, some people hate Jews but they don't even ****ing know why

[The Child 18,997]

I never understood why people hated Jews tbh 

[Melech 9,900]

Just now, Ronlop said:

This is horrible

From experience, some people hate Jews but they don't even ****ing know why

It's because Jews are the most privileged group in the word and secretly rule the world. Also Jews are reptiloids 

 

[Ronlop 6,882]

Just now, Simon said:

It's because Jews are the most privileged group in the word and secretly rule the world. Also Jews are reptiloids 

 

Nnnnn

lmao

[Didymus 34,380]

"Critics have long warned against taking the annual statistical review of hate crimes released by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program too literally. The review, released November 16, is a database compiled from bias and hate crime counts submitted to the FBI by local police agencies across the country on a voluntary basis. Each local force uses its own methods for counting and categorizing. Studies by the Justice Department’s own Bureau of Justice Statistics, among others, suggest that the FBI numbers are consequently much lower than the real level of hate crimes."

Not unimportant.

[Melech 9,900]

10 minutes ago, Didymus said:

"Critics have long warned against taking the annual statistical review of hate crimes released by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program too literally. The review, released November 16, is a database compiled from bias and hate crime counts submitted to the FBI by local police agencies across the country on a voluntary basis. Each local force uses its own methods for counting and categorizing. Studies by the Justice Department’s own Bureau of Justice Statistics, among others, suggest that the FBI numbers are consequently much lower than the real level of hate crimes."

Not unimportant.

Yeah ,adding to that hundreds of unreported aggressions. 

[AddMeOnMYSPACE 2,096]

hollywood is run by Jews that's why! According to Marlon Brando and Mel Gibson 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

This thread is very sensationalist in its use of the statistics. The reality is unfortunate and is always worth talking about but not like this. This is another case of spinning statistics to make broad generalizations.

First of all, the report is not at all representative of the actual number of hate crimes, only the ones that were reported, so the title is misleading.

Also, hate crime categorizations are very biased in themselves. Minorities are much more likely to report a crime as a hate crime when it could have also been driven by other reasons. It's the same reason any attacks on gay people are typically labeled as hate crimes when they could have been caused by something else (and vice versa). In the same vein, anti-religious attacks are often reported as something else, very often as anti-racial. 

Furthermore, the USA is a predominantly Christian country. Hate crime refers to criminal acts that are seen to have been motivated by bias.  This implies that the probability of a crime being both a hate crime and anti-Christian is much lower than that of other denominations given that Christians are the overwhelming majority and this isn't Northern Ireland.

Jews are the largest religious minority, and are therefore most likely to be a target of a hate crime.

Add to it the fact that Jews are considered both a religion and an ethnicity. This further inflates the observed statistics. You can clearly see that ethnicity is listed as an independent group.

On top of all that, Jewish populations in the USA are clustered in metropolitan areas. There are 2 million Jews in New York alone (roughly a quarter of the population). These locations have much higher crime rates than observed in rural areas. Add the unfortunate religious bias there and you have a bad mix.

 

[Tokyo Rose 1,475]

What is a "hate crime"? Is there such thing as a "love crime"?

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

2 minutes ago, Tokyo Rose said:

What is a "hate crime"? Is there such thing as a "love crime"?

A hate crime is a crime that is reported to be driven by bias toward a group the victim is associated with. It's a real thing.

On the other hand, love crimes do exist too. If you kill someone because they cheated on you, you killed them because you were biased towards the love you thought you both shared. :P

[Tokyo Rose 1,475]

11 minutes ago, LebaneseDude said:

A hate crime is a crime that is reported to be driven by bias toward a group the victim is associated with. It's a real thing.

On the other hand, love crimes do exist too. If you kill someone because they cheated on you, you killed them because you were biased towards the love you thought you both shared. :P

The OPs statements in this thread have been, "Jews" are receiving the most "hate crimes".

That is less than .5% of the world's population.

This is hilariously absurd

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

3 minutes ago, Tokyo Rose said:

The OPs statements in this thread have been, "Jews" are receiving the most "hate crimes".

That is less than .5% of the world's population.

This is hilariously absurd

It doesn't matter if only one person is targeted, it's still a subject worth discussing, especially if it can spread awareness.

So in that sense I get where Simon is coming from, but there is a lot of sensationalism going on here.

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

1 hour ago, Ronlop said:

This is horrible

From experience, some people hate Jews but they don't even ****ing know why

They hate "The Jews", not Jews. 

At least in the USA, it's not that they don't hate them for practicing Judaism. They hate the community.

Just think of all the stereotypes you see surrounding them. That's the reflection of their community as seen by others.

Some people hate "The Jews" because some Jewish person probably did something that hurt them at one point or another, and now they blame the entire community. It's easier to vent their hatred that way.

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

1 hour ago, Ronlop said:

 

DP.