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In order for it to count as a hate crime it has to be charged as one. . .
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Not true. UCR stats are reported monthly to the FBI by PD and SO records units (in smaller agencies the Chief or Sheriff's secretary does this). The UCR stat for "hate crime" is generated, in most agencies by checking a box or otherwise indicating on the initial report that the offense was "bias-related." It has nothing to do with whether or not charges are ever filed.
Your community's Burglary rate has nothing to do with how many persons are actually charged with burglary, either. Since the nationwide clearance rate (where a suspect is identified and charged or the case is exceptionally cleared because the suspect is dead or otherwise can not be charged) for Burglaries is around 10%, your number of UCR-reported burglaries reflects burglaries reported to law enforcement, not suspects charged with Burglary.
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You are proving everyone else's point. If that little box is not checked, it is not reported as a hate crime. No one is talking about whether or not someone is charged with a crime in an event, but whether they are charged with a hate crime.
That clown, whose name I cannot remember, a few years ago on a New York train went through a train shooting white people and left a note that he hated white people, yet was not charged with a hate crime. He was charged with a crime, just not a hate crime. This was a hate crime not charged as such, so it doesn't show up on your list. What's not to understand about that?
We'll see how this plays out, but on Fox News this morning was a story about a black man who shot a white man on the street, followed him into a bar, shot him again, doused several white people with gasoline, threatened to burn them because he 'wanted to see white people burn'. What do you want to bet that he is not charged with a hate crime. So there will be another hate crime not reported to the FBI as such, so it won't be on your statistics list.