Hate crime progression within the United States

Dakota Sanders

Bar Graph 1 represents the correlation between hate crime victims and hate groups. The total number of victims and hate groups are represented over a 10-period from 2009 to 2019 withing the United States. The categories included in the total number of victims consist of race/ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and multiple-bias incidents. As for the hate groups, it included the groups such as the Neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, Racist skinheads, Anti-LBGT, etc. The blue bars represent the hate crime victims, and the orange bars represents the hate groups.

Bar Graph 1

The graph shows that hate crime victims far out-weigh the number of hate groups in any given year. It may be fair to say that the number of hate groups remained fairly consistent within the 10 years. Whereas the number of hate crime victims steadily increased after 2015. Much of these occurrences are pre-pandemic, it will be interesting to see how these numbers change during and post pandemic. Some cases are more than likely the outcome of one’s own prejudice motive. Not all victims are the product of hate groups. Another point worth noting is that when hate groups strike, the number of victims can increase. When viewed in this way, the number of victims will, and often does, outnumber the number of actual hate groups. The ebb and flow of racial violence is affected by a number of factors that enable hate groups to commit acts of violence against people of different races.

Bar Graph 2 evaluates the hypothesis that higher crime incidents correlates to higher unemployment rates within the United States. The graph displays the incidences and unemployment over a 9-year period, between 2009 to 2019. The purpose of the graph is to determine if unemployment rates have any effect on the number of hate crime incidents within a specific time frame. The orange bars represent hate crime incidents, and the blue bars represent unemployment rates.

Bar Graph 2

In Bar Graph 2, unemployment rates surpassed hate crime occurrences from 2009 to 2012, with hate crimes remaining reasonably stable. Unemployment continues to decrease after this period, whilst the number of hate crime incidents begins to rise. Hate crime incidents have now exceeded the unemployment rate in 2017 to 2019.It is interesting that during periods of exceedingly high unemployment, that the occurrences of hate crimes were not nearly as high. It is reasonable to speculate that other unknown causes are contributing to the increase in hate crime incidents. As a result, it is fair to assume that unemployment rates are not a strong indicator or motivator of hate crime incidents.

Hate Crime Victims vs. Hate Groups

Hate Crime Victims 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 8336 8208 8208 7164 7242 6727 7173 7615 8828 8819 8812 Hate Groups 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 932 1002 1018 1007 939 784 892 917 954 1020 940

Hate Crime Incidents vs. Unemployment

Hate Crime Incidents 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 6604 6628 6222 5796 5928 5479 5850 6121 7175 7120 7314 Unemployment 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 14265 14825 13747 12506 11460 9617 8296 7751 6982 6314 6001