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FBI Hate Crime Statistics: Anti-Black Hate Crimes Dropped Dramatically

Aaron Bandler
FBI Hate Crime Statistics: Anti-Black Hate Crimes Dropped Dramatically

Statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation on hate crimes reveal that anti-black hate crimes have declined dramatically over the past decade.

Robert Cherry, a Brooklyn College economist, writes at RealClearPolicy that while there was a slight increase in anti-black hate crime incidents per million from 2014 to 2015 – 35 to 37.7 per million – it is still far lower than the 2002-2008 average of 83.8 hate crime incidents per million.

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