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Researcher: national victim survey undercounts bias violence; redesign aims to capture more incidents
Summary
RTI researcher Lynn Langton told the California Commission on the State of Hate that the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) captures far more hate‑crime victimizations than police reports and recommended question wording changes; she said BJS will implement a redesign in 2025 and new data will be available in 2026.
Lynn Langton, PhD, program director for the Victimization and Response Program at RTI International, told the California Commission on the State of Hate that survey data and police reports measure different things and that the NCVS consistently identifies far more hate‑crime victimizations than the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting system.
"I couldn't even add the UCR numbers to this chart without having two different axes," Langton said, summarizing a 2023 comparison in which NCVS estimates are orders of magnitude higher than law‑enforcement counts. Langton described NCVS estimates through 2023 as publicly available through the Inter‑university Consortium for Social and Political Research.
Langton explained…
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