Breaking down New York City’s hate crimes
July 25th, 2005 | Published in Local Data, Mapping
Jo Craven McGinty at the New York Times reported this weekend that hate crimes in the city are down 44 percent between 2000 and 2004. The crimes are broken down in graphics and maps. A member of New York’s hate crimes unit credits people “just behaving better” in the city in the wake of a hate crime law put on the books in 2000.