THE MATHEMATICS OF MALICE

Oct 25, 2019 2 minutes

Between 2004 and 2015, FBI data revealed that Americans experienced about 6,000 hate crimes per year. That’s a staggering amount of scorn. Unfortunately, the FBI is probably wrong.

During those same years, the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) conducted its own survey of more than 50,000 U.S. residents. Based on those responses, the BJS estimated