In all, 7, 783 hate crimes were included in the FBI's 2008 Hate Crime Statistics report.
Some 535 people were murdered last year, according to local crime statistics, up from 433 in 2011.
Criminologists John Eterno and Eli Silverman argue in their book "The Crime Numbers Game" that crime statistics are manipulated.
One way to encourage more fine-tuning of policing to local conditions would be to make crime statistics more readily available.
In a report for the Southern Poverty Law Center called Discounting Hate, Potok concluded that hate crime statistics are plagued with inaccuracy.
"The police often do this to lower crime statistics, " says Mr Yusuf.
Both statements are a questionable interpretation of the crime statistics published today.
Residents say that people who are murdered elsewhere and then taken to the city's morgue are being grouped into the city's crime statistics.
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India's crime statistics show that police registered more than 133, 000 cases from 2004 to 2008 under the country's stringent laws to protect Dalits against atrocities.
Police here now unusually want to see some crime statistics rise - by encouraging more people, particularly those with disabilities, to report bullying and anti-social behaviour.
As part of its CompStat system, it combined mapping and the analysis of crime statistics to target "hot spots" by concentrating patrol, detective and narcotics units.
The first minister insisted there were 1190 more police officers than when the SNP took office and the crime statistics were at their lowest for 30 years.
If a friend gets mugged in a foreign country, that story is more likely to affect how safe you feel in that country than abstract crime statistics.
Witness Confident cites official crime statistics for England and Wales in 2010-2011 that suggest more than half of street robberies and assaults are not reported to police.
That is a remarkable fall by any standards - and the trend is expected to be confirmed on Thursday when the Office for National Statistics releases its latest crime statistics.
America's fiercest imprisoner, Texas, which locks up more than 1, 000 people for every 100, 000 citizens, has far worse crime statistics than New York state, where the imprisonment rate has risen much more slowly.
Last year, New Orleans had 161 murders, which translates into a murder rate of roughly 70 homicides per 100, 000 people, the highest in the country, according to FBI crime statistics and population data.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation provides detailed crime statistics every year, but warns against creating rankings solely based on their data, since they are individually reported by agencies and reflect vastly different socioeconomic circumstances.
Similarly, an analysis of national crime statistics done last year by University of Florida criminology student Nicholas Branic found that living in a gated community does not significantly influence a person's likelihood of victimization.
Crime statistics have previously shown a close link between truancy and youngsters committing offences - and by removing children from the streets the government believes that it can reduce the risk of youngsters drifting into crime.
According to the FBI compilation of hate crime statistics in the U.S., drawn from between eleven and fifteen thousand participating federal, state, and local agencies, since and including 2001, hate crimes against Muslims in the United States have averaged about 2% of all reported hate crimes each year.
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If we really want to see things change and try to create a drop in the worrying crime statistics we read about, we have to replace and re-learn the value of individuals, implementing the right resources and support for the effective, creative and motivating youth work that is beginning to hit our streets but so often is unseen.
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New Zealand and Australia require publication of detailed information on the cost of tapping operations, the categories of crime involved and statistics on its effectiveness.
It will increase the accurate tracking of crime trends and provide better statistics to measure the effectiveness of crime prevention strategies.
But a council spokesman said the areas earmarked for CIZs were selected based on a number of statistics, including crime and anti-social behaviour figures, hospital admissions and the number of licensed premises.
And he talked very clearly about the prevalence of violence in America, that even as overall statistics show that crime has gone down over these last many years but there is still too much violence.
The Home Office has also recently started publishing statistics for all hate-crime in England and Wales.
Recent crime figures from the Office for National Statistics make interesting - and surprising - reading.
Consider that in 2012 some 532 people were murdered in the city of Chicago, according to statistics compiled by the website Crime in Chicago ( log on here for their names and stories).
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