From 2010 to 2016, the FBI reported that local law enforcement agencies noted a total of 142 of them. Every year a small number of anti-heterosexual hate crime reports end up in the UCR. Those reports made their way from Columbus to Washington, D.C., where they were compiled with thousands of others into what the FBI calls the Uniform Crime Report.
“I can assure you these mistakes were not intentional.”Įach officer has a supervisor whose duty is to check such reports, but it’s possible the errors still got through, Worthington added.
“Given the fact that our officers are human, we are prone to make the occasional mistake,” said Worthington. Dean Worthington acknowledges it’s likely that the officers who filed the reports marked the wrong box. That’s more than any other local law enforcement agency in the nation reported during that period. Since 2010, Columbus police have reported six incidents that list bias against heterosexuals as the purported motivation. MORE NEWS: Student at Philly school who reportedly went missing has been foundĬolumbus police acknowledged Rob’s concern that the incident may have been motivated by bias, but they got a key detail wrong in their incident report: They mistakenly marked it as a case of anti-heterosexual harassment. “A thing that I’ve dealt with my entire life as a gay man is extreme prejudice, from threats to constant harassment,” Rob said, noting that his landlord had previously told his neighbors that he was a “filthy queer.” Fearing an escalation, he called the police.
According to a police report, the man jumped into the argument and threatened Rob - who asked that we not use his full name - with a homophobic slur. His landlord had been calling him about maintenance issues in his Columbus, Ohio, apartment, but that night she came with a male companion and began to scream at him. Rob heard a loud knock at his door late one night in August 2014.
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