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Every year the FBI publishes statistics on hate crimes against different racial\/ethnic, sexual orientation, religious, and disability groups<\/span>, including us<\/span><\/a>. (As an aside, you know the FBI is peak woke [in the original, un-ironic sense] when <\/span>they actually refer to us<\/span><\/a> by the term requested by the Church [\u201cChurch of Jesus Christ\u201d].)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n So how do we shake out? Over the past 5 years there have been 77 incidents of anti-Latter-day Saint bias-driven criminality according to the FBI.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For the other categories, we have<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ll have to admit I\u2019m a little curious about the backstory behind the anti-Mormon \u201ctheft from a motor vehicle\u201d or \u201cdrug equipment violation\u201d hate crimes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In terms of offender characteristics, 22 were white, 11 were Black, 10 were unknown, 3 were Pacific Islanders, and one was Asian. Given that about 15% of the US is Black and Latter-day Saints don\u2019t tend to live in Black areas, there appears to be a disproportionate number of African Americans involved. However, 1) these are very small numbers, so randomness and all that, even though I ran a quick binomial probability test and it is statistically significant, and 2) I suspect much if not all of this is an artifact from the presence of Church buildings in inner-city areas. Having lived almost all of my professional life in Black-majority areas, anecdotally I just don\u2019t see an issue there. (This isn\u2019t being patronizing; anti-semitism, for example,<\/span> is an issue in some sectors of the Black community<\/span><\/a>, I just don\u2019t get the sense that anti-Mormonism is).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking of race, how do we stack up compared to other categories? Obviously anti-Mormon is a drop in the hate crime bucket. During the same five years there were 13,880 recorded cases of anti-Black hate crimes. This is by far the largest, with all of the other major categories (anti-gay, anti-Hispanic, etc.) in the several thousands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n So perhaps the more apropos point of comparison would be other religions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n So, while a lot of people say they wouldn\u2019t vote for a Mormon and such, in terms of physical attacks and the like we get it about as bad as the atheists and Buddhists (in the aggregate, not on a per capita basis), but we\u2019re not in the same ballpark as a lot of other groups, with anti-semitism \u201cleading\u201d the pack of hate crimes by far. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every year the FBI publishes statistics on hate crimes against different racial\/ethnic, sexual orientation, religious, and disability groups, including us. (As an aside, you know the FBI is peak woke [in the original, un-ironic sense] when they actually refer to us by the term requested by the Church [\u201cChurch of Jesus Christ\u201d].)\u00a0 So how do we shake out? Over the past 5 years there have been 77 incidents of anti-Latter-day Saint bias-driven criminality according to the FBI.\u00a0\u00a0 41 of them have been destruction of property. In terms of location it also notes that 41 of them happened at churches, so these 41 may have been vandalisms of meetinghouses. I don\u2019t know if destruction of religious buildings is considered a per se hate crime, or whether there has to be evidence of animus against that religion. In other words, if somebody is drunk and driving around shooting at random buildings, in theory they could damage Church property without having any problem with us, and I suspect that would not be considered a hate crime.\u00a0 For the other categories, we have Simple Assault (10)\u00a0 Burglary\/Breaking & Entering (9) Intimidation (8) Arson (7) Theft From Building (2) Theft From Motor Vehicle (2) Weapon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10403,"featured_media":49084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-sciences-and-economics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/high.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49083"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49090,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49083\/revisions\/49090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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