NCAVP Releases 2009 Hate Crimes Statistics
07/13/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
http://lezgetreal.com/2010/07/ncavp-releases-2009-hate-crimes-statistics/The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) has released its statistics regarding LGBTQ hate violence for 2009. According to their report, twenty-two victims of hate murder were reported by the NCAVP, and this may not reflect the full number as hate crimes tend to go under reported. One police district was recording rapes under a different category so as not to have to worry about all of the potential testing and paperwork involved in a rape case.
The twenty-two victims of hate murders is the NCAVP's second highest in a decade. The majority, just near eighty percent of the victims of hate murder, were racial minorities, and the bulk of the victims were transwomen or feminine-presenting. That members of already marginalized groups were targeted disproportionally for the more severe violence was commented upon. "These facts are deeply disturbing as these are the same people who are more likely to face discrimination, criminalization or further violence when interacting with criminal legal and social service systems. What we see is that they are less likely to seek and access support from these institutions," said Maria Carolina Morales, Intervention Director of Community United Against Violence (CUAV) in San Francisco.
