Some on the left have also made dubious claims, citing misleading statistics that hate crimes rose dramatically in areas where Trump held campaign rallies. ADADReilly estimates that as much as 15 percent of the hate crimes reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation are falsified. AD“No one’s denying that there are real hate crimes. Both the left and the right do this.”ADLevin said a stricter definition is needed to separate deliberately falsified reports of hate crimes from more ambiguous events. ADIn five years tracking hate crimes in the country’s second-largest city, Martinezhasseen few hoaxes.But he does worry that many real hate crimes have never come to light.

Source: Washington Post December 05, 2019 14:48 UTC