Professor: Hate crime hoaxes are more common than people think

[rangerrebew]

Professor: Hate crime hoaxes are more common than people think

John SextonPosted at 5:21 pm on February 22, 2019

Wilfred Reilly is an associate professor at Kentucky State University where he teaches political science. Reilly has a piece at USA Today which is based on a forthcoming book he is writing on hoax hate crimes. His conclusion is that these crimes happen far more often than people think:


    Doing research for a book, Hate Crime Hoax, I was able to easily put together a data set of 409 confirmed hate hoaxes. An overlapping but substantially different list of 348 hoaxes exists at fakehatecrimes.org, and researcher Laird Wilcox put together another list of at least 300 in his still-contemporary book Crying Wolf. To put these numbers in context, a little over 7,000 hate crimes were reported by the FBI in 2017 and perhaps 8-10% of these are widely reported enough to catch the eye of a national researcher…

https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/22/professor-hate-crime-hoaxes-common-people-think/

[Applewood]

Don't know if the professor's data is reliable, but I'm willing to bet that for every true story of a hate crime, there are dozens that are lies.  This is like Me Too.  All these chippies coming out of the woodwork claiming rape 20 or 30 years ago with no proof and ruining some poor guy's life with phony (or at least unprovable) accusations.  Do these false accusers realize the damage they do to real victims? 

Maybe they do realize, but they don't care...so long as they get whatever they really want out of the accusation (money, fame, whatever).

[mountaineer]

Jackson gay rights leader accused of burning down own home
Francis X. Donnelly, The Detroit News
 Published 12:00 a.m. ET Feb. 25, 2019 | Updated 12:04 a.m. ET Feb. 25, 2019

Jackson — When the home of Nikki Joly burned down in 2017, killing five pets, the FBI investigated it as a hate crime.

After all, the transgender man  and gay rights activist had received threats after having a banner year in this conservative town.

In the prior six months, he helped open the city’s first gay community center, organized the first gay festival and, after 18 years of failed attempts, helped lead a bruising battle for an ordinance that prohibits discrimination against gays.

For his efforts, a local paper named him the Citizen of the Year.

Authorities later determined the fire was intentionally set, but the person they arrested came as a shock to both supporters and opponents of the gay rights movement. It was the citizen of the year — Nikki Joly. ...

No one was home as flames leaped from the house Joly shared with Moore. But the home wasn’t unoccupied.

A neighbor, knowing the couple had pets, kicked in the front door but it was too hot to go inside, police said. When firefighters tried to open the back door, it was blocked by the body of a dog.

All five animals died: two German Shepherds and three cats.

Traces of gasoline were later found in five rooms on the first floor of the two-story, wooden-frame house, according to the police report. ...

Rest of story


The "man" in question, at right. Her attorney is on the left.

[verga]

Heard him on Joe Pags the other day. Fascinating interview.

[dfwgator]

Only if the people are stupid.

[verga]

Jackson gay rights leader accused of burning down own home
Francis X. Donnelly, The Detroit News
 Published 12:00 a.m. ET Feb. 25, 2019 | Updated 12:04 a.m. ET Feb. 25, 2019Rest of story


The "man" in question, at right. Her attorney is on the left.

She let her pets be killed to "make a point"- Death penalty