Over 7,000 hate crimes were reported to the FBI in 2021. Here's why that data is flawed.

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The report found more than 7,000 hate crimes. But that's just a fraction of the true number, experts say. The data release is 'so severely hampered by a decline in participating agencies,' said Brian Levin of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism.

The FBI's hate crime report showed there were more than 7,000 hate crimes in 2021, but that's just a fraction of the true number.Despite increasing concerns about the rise of bias-motivated crimes and growing domestic extremism in the U.S., even fewer law enforcement agencies reported data on hate crimes to the FBI last year.. But that's just a fraction of the true number, according to experts – including the bureau's director.

While 93% of agencies participated in 2020, about 65% participated in 2021, the FBI said, attributing the decline to a nationwide transition to a different reporting system. That means it's impossible to draw any meaningful conclusions about hate crime trends year-over-year, the FBI said Monday. The nation's two largest cities, New York and Los Angeles, did not provide data. The third-largest, Chicago, reported zero, according to the FBI's report.

"We count maybe 10% of hate crimes," said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the nonprofit Global Project Against Hate and Extremism."This reporting gap is a disaster and really needs to be fixed."There were more than 7,000 single-bias incidents involving more than 8,700 victims, the FBI said.

 

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No. There was 7000 opinions of what someone thought was a hate crime

Crazy out here in the real world where we don't see any of these things. But we do see gang violence and cartels distributing drugs for our children to overdose on. On a side note what's up with the Twitter files I keep hearing about?

100% believe the reports were made.

Why is it we can never get accurate numbers from government offices due to system glitches? Incompetence!!

I can easily fix the reporting… All crime is hate.

. 59% of Trump voters said minorities are more favored.

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