We are under attack. We are being murdered. We are not all the same kind of f…
We are under attack. We are being murdered. We are not all the same kind of free.
“Freedom’s what you do with what's been done to you.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
I am speaking up. I am speaking out.
Hate crimes have nearly doubled in Washington in the past two years. And it’s a trend followed by the rest of the nation.
“D.C. is at an all-time high,” professor Brian Levin The District had 209 hate crimes reported in 2018, up from 179 in 2017, 107 in 2016 and 66 in 2015.
The nation saw the largest number of transgender homicide victims on record in 2017, with 29 killed. Last year, it was 26. And most of them were black transgender women.
The FBI data, however, likely dramatically underestimates the true number of hate crimes against the LGBTQ community, experts, say, given flaws in the current data collection process and massive discrepancies with the much larger number of self-reported incidents.
A better gauge of hate crime trends in the U.S. may be the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), a household-based survey administered by the U.S. Census Bureau. This self-reported data suggests that Americans experience closer to 200,000 hate crimes each year – a far cry from the FBI’s estimate of approximately 7,500.
“Freedom’s what you do with what's been done to you.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
I am speaking up. I am speaking out.
Hate crimes have nearly doubled in Washington in the past two years. And it’s a trend followed by the rest of the nation.
“D.C. is at an all-time high,” professor Brian Levin The District had 209 hate crimes reported in 2018, up from 179 in 2017, 107 in 2016 and 66 in 2015.
The nation saw the largest number of transgender homicide victims on record in 2017, with 29 killed. Last year, it was 26. And most of them were black transgender women.
The FBI data, however, likely dramatically underestimates the true number of hate crimes against the LGBTQ community, experts, say, given flaws in the current data collection process and massive discrepancies with the much larger number of self-reported incidents.
A better gauge of hate crime trends in the U.S. may be the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), a household-based survey administered by the U.S. Census Bureau. This self-reported data suggests that Americans experience closer to 200,000 hate crimes each year – a far cry from the FBI’s estimate of approximately 7,500.
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