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发帖数: 11530 | 1 Hate crime reports in US surge to the highest level in 12 years, FBI says
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By Christina Carrega and Priya Krishnakumar, CNN
Updated 2:05 PM ET, Tue October 26, 2021
(CNN)More than 10,000 people reported to law enforcement last year that they
were the victim of a hate crime because of their race or ethnicity, sexual
orientation, gender, religion or disability -- a number that has been on the
rise in recent years, according to FBI's annual hate crime statistics
report.
The amended report, released on Monday, found more than 7,700 criminal hate
crime incidents were reported to the FBI in 2020, an increase of about 450
incidents over 2019. The increase comes even as fewer agencies reported hate
crime incidents in their jurisdictions to the FBI than in previous years.
Last year had the highest tally of reported hate crime incidents since 2008,
when 7,783 incidents were reported to the FBI.
Attacks targeting Black people rose to 2,871 from 1,972, and the number
targeting Asians jumped to 279 from 161, the data showed. The number of anti
-Jewish attacks dropped from 963 in 2019 to 683 in 2020, the report showed.
The data released on Monday showed that bias against African Americans
overwhelmingly comprised the largest category of reported hate crime
offenses pertaining to race, with a total of 56% of those crimes motivated
by anti-Black or African American bias. Asians have been targeted during the
Covid-19 pandemic amid online and political rhetoric stigmatizing them,
though this category of hate crime is often underreported.
The category of hate crime incidents where a victim was targeted because of
their race, ethnicity or ancestry had the highest increase between 2019 and
2020, with 8,052 single-bias incidents in 2020 compared to 3,954 the
previous year.
According to the FBI report, 61.8% of victims were targeted because of their
race or ethnicity, up from 58% in 2019. About 20% were victimized because
of sexual-orientation bias in 2020, and 13.3% because of religious bias, the
FBI said.
Overall, more than 11,000 people reported that they were victims of a hate
crime motivated by a single bias, and 346 were victims of crimes motivated
by different biases.
Of the known offenders, more than half were White, according to the FBI.
The Justice Department and FBI are required by a 1990 federal law called the
Hate Crime Statistics Act to publish an annual report on hate crime
statistics. The annual report serves as the most comprehensive look at hate
crime across the country.
These statistics are likely a vast undercount because law enforcement
agencies are not required to submit their data to the FBI for their annual
crime report. There are more than 18,000 agencies in the United States and
more than 3,000 did not submit their crime statistics in 2020.
Why hate crime data can't capture the true scope of anti-Asian violence
Why hate crime data can't capture the true scope of anti-Asian violence
The FBI's data may also be incomplete because in some jurisdictions, local
prosecutors, not police, decide what is charged as a hate crime. The federal
government does not collect hate crime statistics from local prosecutors or
courts.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday said in statement that preventing
and responding to hate crimes are among the Justice Department's top
priorities.
"These statistics show a rise in hate crimes committed against Black and
African-Americans, already the group most often victimized, he said. "
Notably, they show a rise in hate crimes committed against members of the
Asian-American Pacific Islander community. This also confirms what we have
seen and heard through our work and from our partners."
Scope of the problem hard to capture
Hate crime and bias incident data released by police departments and federal
agencies is just a fraction of actual incidents, and deficiencies in hate-
crime reporting have led organizers and activists to take it upon themselves
to collect data on their own. Even then, the definitions of hate crime may
differ, leaving policymakers with competing datasets that don't capture the
scope of the problem.
A recent Stop AAPI Hate report by a coalition tracking racism and
discrimination against Asian Americans shows there were at least 4,533
incidents in the first six months of the year and advocates say numerous
other attacks have taken place over the summer. The report showed it has
received 9,081 firsthand complaints between March 19 of last year and June
30. The organization has previously said it doesn't independently verify any
of the reports it receives, but that its total number of incidents only
includes those reports that came with a description.
The majority of the incidents -- about 63.7% -- were cases of verbal
harassment, while shunning or avoidance made up about 16.5%. About 13.7% of
the incidents involved physical assaults, according to Stop AAPI Hate.
Among those saying they've experienced bias, women accounted for 63.3% of
all reports and 48.1% said the incidents involved "at least one hateful
statement regarding anti-China and/or anti-immigrant rhetoric," the
coalition said.
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, thousands of people in the
United States have been victims of anti-Asian incidents, from verbal abuse
to physical attacks. More than a year later, Asian American advocates fear
that even more women, children and seniors will be at risk as the nation
slowly returns to schools, workplaces and outdoor activities this fall.
Asian American leaders fear Covid-19 origin report could fuel more bigotry
and violence
Last week, the US intelligence community reached an inconclusive assessment
about the origin of the Covid-19 virus following a 90-day investigation
ordered by President Joe Biden, according to an unclassified summary of the
probe released publicly on Friday.
Asian American leaders were concerned that the report on the origins of the
Covid-19 would be used to "legitimize racist language" and lead to more anti
-Asian violence across the country.
The intelligence community is still divided about which of the two theories
-- that the virus came from a lab leak or that it jumped from animal to
human naturally -- is likely to be correct, the intelligence community said.
There is consensus among the intelligence agencies that the two prevailing
theories are plausible, according to the summary released by the Office of
the Director of National Intelligence.
"All agencies assess that two hypotheses are plausible: natural exposure to
an infected animal and laboratory-associated incident," the intelligence
community wrote.
The unclassified report, two-page report, was released Friday by the
intelligence community after Biden had asked intelligence agencies to "
redouble" their efforts to determine how the Covid-19 pandemic began.
CNN's Nicole Chavez and Jeremy Herb contributed to this report. | W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 2 "Asians have been targeted during the Covid-19 pandemic amid online and
political rhetoric stigmatizing them, though this category of hate crime is
often underreported." | W***n
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