Source of those sttistics please, Wolfgang. They may be right, but these kind of stattistics can be skewed by such things as differential clear-up rates and so forth.

Not every crime gets reported, not every crime has its perpetrators convicted, not every convicted person is guilty, not every acquitted person is innocent. And the matter of when something is counted as a "hate crime" is tied in with whom the culprit is, and what their motivation was.

Often in these kinds of matters guesses and estimates can get hardened up into something more.

This matters because there have been many times when crimes have been too readily ascribed to members of minority groups, and seen as having some "hate" significance directed at the community from which the victims came. That kind of thing has led to lynchings and similar.