For every year in recent memory the liberal media screamed that hate crimes are on the rise. A new report from the Department of Justice however suggests that is a complete load of garbage. In fact, out of all the reported hate crimes, only 17% resulted in convictions. And those convictions have steadily been declining over the last 15 years.
Let’s take a stroll down memory lane in the fake news industry’s campaign of fear:
2008 – Election of Obama provokes rise in U.S. hate crimes
2009 – FBI Report Notes Rise In Hate Crimes
2010 – Hate crimes against gay, transgender people rise, report says
2011 – New FBI Data Shows Hate Crimes Based on Sexual Orientation on the Rise
2012 – Hate Violence Against LGBT Community Is On a Dangerous Rise
2013 – FBI: BIAS CRIMES AGAINST MUSLIMS REMAIN AT HIGH LEVELS
2014 – Anti-Muslim Hate Crime Surge Reported in US in 2014
2015 – Hate Crimes Against Minorities in the U.S. Surged Last Year, FBI Says
2016 – FBI: Hate crimes reach 5-year high in 2016, jumped as Trump rolled toward presidency
2017 – FBI report shows 17 percent spike in hate crimes in 2017
2018 – Hate-Crime Violence Hits 16-Year High, F.B.I. Reports
2019 – Hate crimes in US reach highest level in more than a decade
How telling is that 8-year shift of “hate crimes are on the rise because people hate Obama” to “hate crimes are on the rise because people love Trump”?
Despite all of these headlines about rises, surges, and spikes in hate crimes, it turns out there really hasn’t been more hate violence. The DoJ released a report this week that shows not only haven’t hate crimes been a problem for the past 15 years, prosecutions have been on the decline since 2005:
From October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2019, U.S. attorneys investigated a total of 1,864 suspects in matters involving violations of federal hate crime statutes. Federal prosecutors referred 17% of the suspects for prosecution. The number of hate crime matters investigated fell 8%, from 647 during 2005-09 (129 per year) to 597 during 2015-19 (119 per year).
And in reality, it wasn’t 17% of these hate crimes that resulted in convictions, that’s just the number of cases referred for prosecution. The prosecution rates range from 83% to 94%, so it’s probably more like 15% of investigated hate crimes that actually put someone in jail.
The reason stated for this low number of hate crime prosecution referrals is also quite interesting:
Insufficient evidence was the most common reason hate crime matters were declined.
That’s a fancy way of saying that almost all hate crimes reported were bullshit. In other words, there ain’t all that much hate crime out there.
In another narrative-buster, hardly any of the federal hate crime prosecutions involved violence of any kind. Most were fair housing gripes, followed by property crime against religious institutions.
One thing the DoJ left out of this report is the races of the hate crime perpetrators and their victims. I suspect this was omitted on purpose because the idea that racist white people are attacking poor minorities is also a false narrative.
For the past decade and a half, the liberal media has been trying to scare the shit out of people with inflammatory headlines about the shocking rise of violent hate extremism. Like everything else they report, it was all a lie.
Of course this DoJ report only covers 2005-2019, so the liberal media can still claim hate crimes are on the rise in 2020 and 2021, which they have done. This is the fake news industry saying: “Sure, we got it wrong for 15 years in a row but trust us, it’s real this time.”
