sc94597 said:
Aura7541 said:
But we don't know how large the discrepancy is, so we shouldn't just assume the US miss out one one case for every one case in Canada. There are a lot of variables that need to be put into account such as cross state variation in hate crime laws, cross state variation in hate crime definitions, uneven collection, under reporting, difference in hate crime definitions between federal and state levels, proportion of the amount of hate crime prevention to the amount of hate crimes, etc.
It is easy to divide a number by another number and call it a day. However, you need to look into how and why did we get these numbers.
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My point is, even if the discrepancy is 100%, which is very unlikely a case, they are in the same order of magnitude. The hate crime statistic was based on Federal law, not state law. I already said that.
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Based on Federal law or based on the collection of data from a federal agency? There's a big distinction between the two. And another variable to consider is the magnitude of discrimmination in different regions of the US and Canada. How are these hate crimes distributed because surely, they aren't distributed in an artistic mosaic.
