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[–] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Our elected leaders have an effect on how people act, violence increased during his last term.

[–] nugmeister64@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (8 children)

unbiased proof? I don't see how people will just magically decide their aggression level based on the arbitrarily chosen political figurehead in power

[–] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Here is the hate crime incident count as reported from the FBI data explorer website. As you can see the count had been falling after 2001 up until 2016 where it then starts rising again.

  • 2000 8,219
  • 2001 9,730
  • 2002 7,485
  • 2003 7,545
  • 2004 7,684
  • 2005 7,411
  • 2006 7,715
  • 2007 7,624
  • 2008 8,039
  • 2009 6,612
  • 2010 6,628
  • 2011 6,299
  • 2012 6,593
  • 2013 6,044
  • 2014 5,597
  • 2015 5,843
  • 2016 6,270
  • 2017 7,329
  • 2018 7,180
  • 2019 7,875
  • 2020 9,952
  • 2021 10,891
  • 2022 11,643
[–] freeindv@monyet.cc -1 points 10 months ago

Damn, Biden shot it through the roof. Guy is very dangerous. Get him out of there

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