I'm asking this because I'm creating a Jonathan swift style satire essay about political unrest and radicalism in which the "Modest Proposal" is to legalize hate crime to get rid of all of the politically unhappy people (since they will kill each other off). And since I'd like to use numbers for my satire, I'd like to know how much hate crime was in the U.S. in the years following the greatest time of civil unrest in our history per capita, and then scale that up for our current population, and double it since there's a second group creating unrest (Antifa). Thanks in advance :D
That's a tricky question. Many researchers look at larger trends or individual incidents. I did find a journal article about a Louisiana parish that found that in Caddo Parish from 1865-1872, 85 % of the homicides were against black victims while only 13% of the murderers of black victims were also black. Only 18% of the murderers of white people were black. 71% of the murderers of black victims were white and the rest were unknown. The author also found that 32% of white murderers of black people had committed multiple murders and no less than 30% of white men had participated in at least one murder. (Gilles Vandal, author. "Bloody Caddo": White Violence against Blacks in a Louisiana Parish, 1865-1876." Journal Of Social History no. 2 (1991): 373.)
Those statistics are unlikely to hold in other regions with a larger white population; in this particular parish, roughly 70% of the people were black. It had a higher rate of homicide for black victims than other nearby Louisiana parishes. The author does not claim that these statistics would hold for a larger region and is up front with the fact that this particular county saw an exceptionally high rate of homicides.