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The Fake News 'Surge' in Hate Crimes | RealClearPolitics
Kentucky State University professor Wilfred Reilly, author of a new book called "Hate Crime Hoax," goes further than mere skepticism about an alleged rise in hate crimes. He says that most of the headline-grabbing "hate crime" stories were fake and calls the 17% uptick an "aberration" due to this increase in agencies' reporting. "Almost all of that surge is due to the simple fact that in 2017 the number of police departments reporting hate crimes to the FBI increased by 1,000," says Reilly, according to a Detroit News opinion piece. "The surge narrative," he insists, "is pretty dishonest." The Jussie Smollett case represents just one recent hate crime hoax. For his book, Reilly examined 409 fake hate crimes that garnered media attention in the last five years. "In major cases, almost all of them have been hoaxes,' he says. 'The number of hate crime hoaxes actually exceeds the number of convictions. The majority of these high-profile incidents never happened.'"
The Fake News 'Surge' in Hate Crimes | RealClearPolitics
Kentucky State University professor Wilfred Reilly, author of a new book called "Hate Crime Hoax," goes further than mere skepticism about an alleged rise in hate crimes. He says that most of the headline-grabbing "hate crime" stories were fake and calls the 17% uptick an "aberration" due to this increase in agencies' reporting. "Almost all of that surge is due to the simple fact that in 2017 the number of police departments reporting hate crimes to the FBI increased by 1,000," says Reilly, according to a Detroit News opinion piece. "The surge narrative," he insists, "is pretty dishonest." The Jussie Smollett case represents just one recent hate crime hoax. For his book, Reilly examined 409 fake hate crimes that garnered media attention in the last five years. "In major cases, almost all of them have been hoaxes,' he says. 'The number of hate crime hoaxes actually exceeds the number of convictions. The majority of these high-profile incidents never happened.'"