Report: Decline in Hate Crime, but State Data Flawed
Hate crime incidents reported to police in the U.S. decreased by more than six percent in 2011, according to data released by the FBI.
There were 6,222 incidents in 2011, down 406 incidents from the 6,628 reported in 2010. Today’s annual numbers are the lowest reported since 1994 and are among the smallest since the FBI began collecting national data pursuant to the Hate Crime Statistics Act in the early 1990s, an article at The Huffington Post reports.