Atlanta shootings: why US hate crime data is so lacking | Mona Chalabi

Statistics gathered by the FBI are often categorized by a single motivation - and no data is collected on sex worker violence

Of the eight people killed in Atlanta spas on Wednesday, six of them were Asian women. The police claim it is too soon to know if the suspect was motivated by racial hatred, focusing instead on the idea that the massage parlors were a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate".

This, of course, ignores the possibility that someone might be motivated by racial hatred and sexism.