>Hate crime is a term which covers a VERY wide range of actions. Someone >calling another a racial slur is considered a hate crime. A swastika painted >on a door is a hate crime. A burning cross is a hate crime. A trainload of >people killed by a suicide bomber is far more than just a hate crime, it's a >terrorist attack. I think the difference is apparent.
I was only counting the murders listed in the hate crime reports. Whether a 100 people a year for 10 years die as a result of a hate crime vs 1000 die because of a bombing is irrelevant to the victims. You're still dead. > >Unfortunately, the methodology used to get those statistics is not available Wrong very wrong. See below. >so we have no clue as to where they drew their lines for hate crimes. If the >methodology says that they are only counting hate crimes that resulted in >one or more deaths, then I'll consider the cases anywhere near the same. Its easy to say such, especially when you don't read the methodology sections or the sections involving data collection, or the parts involving definitions, data integrity etc. Your statement seems to be a case of ignorance being bliss. How the stats are collected and reported have to follow strict protocols. Training Guide for Hate Crime Data Collection (pdf) http://www.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/ucr/traingd99.pdf Hate Crime Data Collection Guidelines (pdf) http://www.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/ucr/hatecrime.pdf Data Collection Guidelines (pdf) http://www.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/ucr/nibrs/manuals/v1all.pdf Data Submission Guidelines (pdf) http://www.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/ucr/nibrs/manuals/v2all.pdf Other methodology information: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/guidelines/guidelines.htm http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/word.htm Moreover the FBI has a lot of resources for researchers investigating this area so as you were saying? > >Everyone hates. Some people act on their hate. Fewer people kill for their >hate. Even fewer mass murder for their hate. Does everyone mass murder for >their hate? Does anyone who committed a crime on that list? > > > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:291928 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
