19 October 2006

They don't like us but at least they don't hate us (enough to kill us)

The FBI have released their hate crime statistics for 2005. In the category of religious hate crime only 0.4% attacks against athiests or agnostics. This means that we are slightly underrepresented. I can feel the love!

Overall the news is less good. The data are composed of 8,804 reported crimes. How many go unreported and how many go unclassified as hate crimes is anyone's guess.

  • 55.7 % due to race
  • 16.0 % due to religion
  • 14.0 % due to ethnicity or origin
  • 13.8 % due to sexual preference
  • 0.6 % due to disability

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