Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI issues statistics every year for hate crimes in the U.S.
This year, hate crimes fell 7%. Good news, right?
Not exactly, according to the Anti-Defamation League, the Jerusalem Post reports.
The annual statistics come from law enforcement agencies that voluntarily release the information. About a quarter of the nation’s law enforcement agencies don’t even particate.
“Especially disappointing is the fact that the report contains no data from jurisdictions that had been models for national response in the past,” ADL National chairman Abraham Foxman said. “The Justice Department and the FBI should use every resource at their disposal to push harder to obtain this missing data, urging those cities and states that still have not provided their 2012 hate crime data to do so as quickly as possible.”
