Georgia's hate crime data tells two stories simultaneously. The first is a downward trend — 248 total incidents in 2021, 197 in 2022, 142 in 2023. Georgia is one of the few states in this series showing consistent decline. The second story is what lives inside those numbers. Anti-Black incidents leading the cumulative data at 268. A white supremacist sentenced to 20 years for shooting into two Clayton County convenience stores targeting Black and Arab people. A man charged for making racially motivated threats and shooting at his Black neighbor. And Ahmaud Arbery — whose killing on February 23rd, 2020 and the subsequent federal hate crime convictions of the three men responsible represent one of the most significant hate crime prosecutions in recent American history. A declining trend does not mean a solved problem. It means the environment changed enough to change some behavior. The cases tell you what that environment still produces. Let's have this conversation.

00:00 — Disclaimer01:01 — Introduction02:34 — Thesis: Georgia is trending down — and Ahmaud Arbery still does not get to go home. Both things are true and both things deserve to be named.05:03 — Opening: February 23rd, 2020 — Brunswick, Georgia — Ahmaud Arbery was jogging on a public road — and three men decided because of his race that he did not belong there08:03 — Background: The national baseline, Georgia's population and political context, SB 202, and what a 43 percent decline over two years does and does not mean11:55 — The Data: Anti-Black at 268, the convenience store shootings, the neighbor shooting, the Ahmaud Arbery federal convictions, and the convenience store location at 24 incidents17:57 — Personal Thoughts: Price Lomonte walked away. Ahmaud Arbery did not. The difference between those two stories is not that one involved police and one did not — it is the outcome.22:27 — Close: Know the numbers. Know Ahmaud Arbery's name. A declining trend is real — and it is not finished. Hawaii is next.

DOJ Hate Crimes State Data — justice.gov/hatecrimes/state-data/georgia

FBI Crime Data Explorer — cde.ucr.cjis.gov

DOJ Ahmaud Arbery Press Release — justice.gov

SPLC — splcenter.org

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