Lawfare Archive: Why is Government Hate Crimes Data So Terrible?
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🗓️ 26 November 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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From March 30, 2021: Anti-Asian violence in the United States seems to be on the rise. On March 16, a shooter killed eight people, six of whom were Asian women, at several Atlanta businesses. Across the country, Asian-Americans have shared stories of attacks and harassment, some of which involved racist language in connection with the coronavirus pandemic.
Yet there is very little data available that could help journalists and policymakers make sense of this apparent trend. To understand why, Quinta Jurecic spoke with Jeff Asher, a crime analyst and the co-founder of AH Datalytics, who recently wrote for Lawfare on why there’s so little reliable data on anti-Asian violence—or on any other kind of hate crime. Jeff discussed the patchwork system by which the FBI currently collects data on hate crimes, what other factors might explain why the data is so unreliable and how improved data could help guide the response to anti-Asian attacks.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm Will Appleton with an episode from the LawFair archive for November 26th, 2022. |
| 1:20.8 | On Saturday and November 19th, a gunman opened fire in an LGBT nightclub in Colorado Springs, |
| 1:26.8 | killing five and injuring 17 others. |
| 1:29.2 | The gunman was subdued and arrested, and now local prosecutors are considering charging |
| 1:33.5 | him with biased motivated crimes, which are generally referred to as hate crimes. |
| 1:38.3 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from March 2021. |
| 1:43.1 | In the episode, Quintet Jurassic sat down with Jeff Asher, a crime analyst and co-founder |
| 1:47.9 | of AH DataLidics. |
| 1:49.8 | To discuss the government's collection of data on hate crimes, they spoke about the patchwork |
| 1:54.2 | system used by the FBI to collect the data, and what other factors might explain why the |
| 1:58.6 | data is so unreliable. |
| 2:03.9 | I'm Quintet Jurassic, and this is the LawFair podcast, March 30th, 2021. |
| 2:18.1 | The LGBT Asian violence in the United States seems to be on the rise. |
| 2:22.3 | On March 16th, a shooter killed eight people, six of whom were Asian women, and several |
| 2:27.9 | Atlanta businesses. |
| 2:30.3 | Across the country, Asian Americans have shared stories of attacks and harassment, some |
| 2:34.8 | of which involved racist language and connection with the coronavirus pandemic. |
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