Want to bet this does not make national news

[eagle7_31]

Race-based hate crimes spike in D.C.; whites most common victims, but underreporting feared - Washington Times

It does not fall into the 'politically correct' category

 

[g5000]

Race-based hate crimes spike in D.C.; whites most common victims, but underreporting feared - Washington Times

It does not fall into the 'politically correct' category

Are any of the "race-based crimes" happening in DC making national news? Why are you just whining about the ones against whites not making national news?

 

[Theowl32]

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times - Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Race-based hate crimes jumped in Washington, D.C., last year even as most other types of bias crimes decreased, with analysts saying such incidents could be vastly underreported among minority groups uncomfortable coming forward to authorities.

D.C. police say that of the 18 race-based hate crimes in 2013, the majority of victims were white and the majority of suspects black. The number of incidents was up from the 13 race-based bias crimes reported in 2012.



The disclosure comes as a wave of protests and unrest after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, has highlighted racial tension in the St. Louis suburb and prompted widespread calls for an evaluation of race relations between communities and their police departments.

The number of hate crimes reported in the District fell overall from 81 in 2012 to 70 in 2013.
The low level of reported race-based hate crimes, including the small number in which minorities were victims, could be a sign that minority victims are reluctant to report crimes, said David C. Friedman, director of the D.C. regional office of the Anti-Defamation League.

“In many African-American communities and other parts of the country, no matter what the demographics of the police department are, there are levels of concern” with coming forward, Mr. Friedman said.


Census data in 2013 put the District’s black population at just under 50 percent, with whites making up 35 percent of the population and Hispanics another 10 percent.

Of the 18 victims of race-motivated hate crimes last year, 10 were white, four were black, two Hispanic, one Asian and one of another race, according to D.C. police.


General mistrust of police among minority communities or language barriers among foreign-born populations could be reasons that victims don’t report, Mr. Friedman said.

“In the case of the District, there are very few hate crimes reported against Latinos and Asian-Americans,” he said. “But it would be wrong to conclude that there are none occurring.”

Data from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics shows a steep drop-off in the nationwide number of perceived hate crimes compared to the number actually reported to police and eventually classified as hate crimes. The department’s surveys indicated that from 2004-2012, an annual average of 270,000 victims believed they had suffered a hate crime. Of those, only an average of 104,000 were reported to police and only 14,000 were officially classified as hate crimes, said Michael Planty, chief of victimization statistics at BJS.

“You can see the social and bureaucratic kind of filters that draw people off,” Mr. Planty said.

Delroy Burton, chairman of the D.C. police department’s branch of the Fraternal Order of Police, agrees there are likely many more race-motivated crimes occurring in the city, but officers may not always have the evidence they need to support the classification as a hate crime.

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We pretty much know the black on white crimes far outnumber white on black. I mean anyone with a tiny little bit of common sense knows this.

We also know why the left wing media would never really put much into these factual numbers, don't we?

 

[eagle7_31]

Race-based hate crimes spike in D.C.; whites most common victims, but underreporting feared - Washington Times

It does not fall into the 'politically correct' category

Are any of the "race-based crimes" happening in DC making national news? Why are you just whining about the ones against whites not making national news?

Just pointing out that there is something of a double standard in most of the media. Physical crime should be treated the same everywhere, not just for political expediency.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Out of the 7,000 or so violent crimes in DC, 10 of them were race-based hate crimes with white victims.

That's a "spike"?

 

[deltex1]

Race-based hate crimes spike in D.C.; whites most common victims, but underreporting feared - Washington Times

It does not fall into the 'politically correct' category

Are any of the "race-based crimes" happening in DC making national news? Why are you just whining about the ones against whites not making national news?

Because they are the most common victims, ya moron.