It’s the Justice Department. It means even though they track hate crimes and publish the stats you can’t get any real information from looking at them. That would be too easy.
The way it works is they compile data from agencies that report crimes listed as hate crimes according to a standard set of criteria. See http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/hcrvp.htm
Most hate crimes described by victims accompanied violent crimes - a rape or other sexual assault, robbery, or assault (84%).
In about half of hate crimes, the victim was threatened verbally or assaulted without either a weapon or an injury being involved
So in HALF of the crimes (verbal or assault), there was no weapon or injury involved.
BUT 84% were accompanied by violent crimes (rape or other sexual assault, robbery, or assault).
I don’t see how these numbers make ANY sense.
I didn’t see the criteria of “hate crime” and did not see any stats that tracked crimes against Republicans (by political belief).