Anti-Jewish hate crimes rose 9%, anti-black hate crimes went up by almost 8%, and anti-LGBT hate crimes increased by nearly 5%, while anti-Latino hate crimes remained steady.
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Hate crimes The NAACP also cited hate crimes as grounds for issuing the travel advisory.
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The report says violent hate crimes decreased from 44% of all hate crimes to 38%.
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"We don't know the full scope of anti-Muslim hate crimes and other hate crimes," he said.
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Hate crimes against Jews have outnumbered hate crimes targeted at transgender people by a factor of 20.
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At the Hate Crimes Summit last June, Sessions doubled down on his commitment to aggressively prosecuting hate crimes.
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In total, Crusius is charged with 85033 counts of hate crimes resulting in death, 23 hate crimes involving an attempt to kill, and 45 counts of discharging a firearm in relation to the hate crimes.
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Hate crimes Hate crimes were up, significantly, in the US last year, according to just-released numbers from the FBI.
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Retaliatory These hate crimes are often seen as revenge, whether in response to personal slights, other hate crimes or terrorism.
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The FBI also released its annual "Hate Crimes Statistics" report yesterday, which indicated hate crimes had indeed increased in 2015.
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Mr. Byrd's legacy now includes Texas's James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act, strengthening punishments for hate crimes, signed by Gov.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center accumulates both victim-reported hate crimes and hate crimes reported by the media, but these data are updated daily, and the center does not keep an annual report of total hate crimes.
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Every year since the FBI began tracking hate crimes in 1996, more than 80% of jurisdictions have reported "zero" hate crimes.
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Seven percent of hate crimes were based on a person's disability and a further 2 percent were transgender-related hate crimes.
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Noting a spike in hate crimes, he also issued updated guidance immediately after the election to law enforcement agencies on hate crimes.
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As San Francisco DA, Harris also created a Hate Crimes Unit aimed at prosecuting hate crimes committed against LGBTQ teens in school.
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The recent report reveals a nearly 383% increase in hate crimes against blacks from 2014 data, which cited 1,621 anti-black hate crimes.
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Together, those two types of hate crimes made up nearly one in five of all hate crimes reported by the FBI in 25.
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"Afro-Swedes are most exposed to hate crimes, and reports of Afrophobic hate crimes have increased by 24 percent since 2008," the report said.
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Hate crimes targeting Muslims are up from 12 to 25, and hate crimes targeting Jews are up from 102 to 111, the police said.
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Despite clear evidence that hate crimes are on the rise, conservative commentators often insist that reports of hate crimes are either exaggerated or false.
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Roof was charged with hate crimes in federal court, but not in state court because South Carolina does not have a hate crimes law.
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While the FBI's overall count of hate crimes is generally considered a huge underestimate of the total hate crimes in the US, the spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes was big enough, Potok said, to potentially suggest a real shift since at least 2015.
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LGBTQ+ Hate Crimes While sexual orientation and gender identity are covered under hate crimes statutes in federal law, these protections vary from state to state.
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According to the most recent report, hate crimes increased 17% in 2017 over the previous year, the third straight year reported hate crimes have increased.
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In 2015, law enforcement agencies reported 1,219 hate crimes against gays and lesbians and 118 hate crimes against those who were trans and gender nonconforming.
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Racial and ethnic bias continued to be the largest motivators for hate crimes in the U.S., driving 2900 percent of the total hate crimes reported.
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The FBI's annual Hate Crimes Statistics report found that in 2014, 20.4% — or just over 1,100 — hate crimes were based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Victims of hate crimes often do not believe that reporting their crime will help their situation, and that contributes to why many hate crimes remain unreported.
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There was the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which added sexual orientation and gender identity to federal hate crimes protections in 22016.
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In 2008, the same year Obama was elected, there were 2,876 anti-black hate crimes reported, nearly 37% of the total number of hate crimes that year.
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For example, since the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes rose by so much in proportion to all hate crimes, there probably is something going on there.
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Since the feds don't have the resources to prosecute all anti-LGBTQ hate crimes as hate crimes, that can leave many of these incidents uninvestigated and unpunished.
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The office also began working on issues tied to hate crimes in 2009, after Congress passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
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On June 29 in Washington, DC, Sessions convened a Hate Crimes Summit and pledged to enforce hate crimes laws — including the one he voted against enacting in 2009.
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"Hate crimes are hate crimes," said Joe Smith, 65, from North Carolina, adding that law enforcement needs to do a better job of monitoring social media for threats.
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The FBI on Tuesday released its annual hate crime data report, which showed a slight decline in hate crimes last year but an increase in violent hate crimes.
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Tracking hate crimes against Muslims Three years after Shepard's death, in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, a wave of anti-Islamic hate crimes surfaced.
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Overall, the FBI says, hate crimes are up 4.6 percent across the board in 2016, marking the first back-to-back annual increases in hate crimes since 2004.
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He was charged with hate crimes in federal court, but not in state court because South Carolina does not have a hate crimes law on the state level.
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Hate crimes were up 43.1% in the first half of 2019 compared to the same period in 2018, according to the Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes.
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FBI statistics from November show that anti-Muslim hate crimes went up by 14 percent between 85033 and 2014, even as hate crimes across the board went down.
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The FBI reported a nearly 7 percent rise in hate crimes in 2015, driven in large part by a 67 percent increase in reported hate crimes against Muslims.
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According to Variety, NBC has ordered new series Law & Order: Hate Crimes, which will be based on the inner workings of New York's real-life Hate Crimes Task Force.
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For example, maybe greater awareness of anti-Muslim attitudes led victims to report more hate crimes to the police and police to report more hate crimes to the FBI.
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Reports of hate crimes in the U.S. rose for the third straight year, according to and FBI report, with racial and ethnic bias the largest motivator for hate crimes.
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Rioting under the hate crimes law would come with stiffer felony penalties, while inciting to riot under the hate crimes law would become a felony (up from a misdemeanor).
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In 2009, Congress took an important step in arming federal investigators to deal with hate crimes by passing the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
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In 2009, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was passed into federal law, broadening the ability of the federal government to prosecute hate crimes.
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In the UK in 2014 out of 52,528 hate crimes reported, 82 per cent were based on race, 11 percent on sexual orientation and 1 percent labelled "transgender hate crimes".
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"In mourning the victims today, we also rededicate ourselves to our commitment to preventing hate crimes," Rosenstein said of the announcement, acknowledging that many hate crimes continue to go unreported.
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Hate crimes against Asian-Americans, African-Americans and Muslims are down in New York, the center said, but reports of anti-Semitic hate crimes are driving the overall total up.
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A further report by the Hate Crimes Working Group found hate crimes against lesbians, gays and bisexuals amounted to 36 percent of the overall number reported between 2013 and 2017.
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The latest F.B.I. statistics corroborate what our researchers found: a 5 percent increase in reported hate crimes, with more than half of faith-based hate crimes — 53 percent — against Jews.
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Hate crimes rose 5 percent in 303 compared to 2017, with crimes targeting black people because of their race rising 33 percent and anti-Semitic hate crimes rising 22 percent.
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Of those, four warranted a criminal investigation as hate crimes, according to Mak Chishty, a former Metropolitan Police investigator in charge of hate crimes who reviewed the documents for LBC.
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It also referred incorrectly to the center's research on hate crimes in New York City in 2016; the city saw the largest number of hate crimes, not the largest increase.
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But it is also true that hate crimes have been on the rise for three years, and that three out of five hate crimes in 2017 were motivated by race.
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So hate crimes will probably depend more on overall crime rates and — in the case of Islamophobic hate crimes — on terrorist attacks than on a general atmosphere created by Trump.
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Police recorded 11,638 hate crimes on the basis of sexual orientation between 0983 and 2018, up from 9,157 the previous year, and 1,651 hate crimes against transgender people up from 1,248.
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And, indeed, it was the right thing — because real anti-Semitism and hate crimes against Jews are on the rise across the country, along with hate crimes targeting many other groups.
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Steady increases in hate crimes numbers since 2749 In 258.1, reports of anti-Muslim hate crimes rose 22017%, according to FBI numbers, from 22017 incidents in 230 to 20173 in 22017.
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Hate crimes rose 1% in 2014, but the number of hate crimes, 389, was the second-lowest in 25 years and was dramatically lower than the peak year of 2001, when the post-September 11 attacks era led to a spike in hate crimes against the Muslim and Middle Eastern community, the commission said.
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Commentary: What Trump should do about anti-Muslim hate crimes The number of hate crimes is rising in America, and Muslims are bearing the brunt of them, writes Reuters columnist Mohamad Bazzi.
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Using data from the Anti-Defamation League that maps out reported incidents of hate crimes, the authors designed a metric to measure how Trump's campaign rallies correlated with incidences of hate crimes.
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Anti-Semitic incidents are the most common hate crimes reported in the city, currently comprising 53.7% of all reported hate crimes from January to September this year, according to NYPD Crime Statistics.
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Clegg said that the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 added gender identity to the categories encompassed by hate crimes—but other civil rights laws have not been updated to include gender identity.
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Within moments of the election results we saw a spike in hate crimes across the country; just a month after election day there were already 1,094 reported hate crimes in the United States.
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Racially motivated hate crimes against blacks ticked up last year FBI data tracking hate crimes show racially motivated crimes against blacks in the United States declining steadily since Obama took office in 146.
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In the U.S., hate crimes have increased annually since 2015 and in 2017, there was a 17 percent rise in hate crimes across the U.S., the largest spike in these crimes since 2001.
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As Vox's German Lopez has reported, prosecuting hate crimes can be difficult, and data on the effectiveness of hate crimes laws can be mixed depending on what type of criteria is being used.
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So this isn't the first and only example of a [non-immutable] characteristic trying to be incorporated into the hate crimes law, or the essence of hate crimes laws tried to be changed.
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The evidence certainly suggests that the shootings were hate crimes.
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This makes it very difficult to actually prosecute hate crimes.
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Dumala called for Washington to do something about hate crimes.
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That's because reporting of hate crimes is voluntary, not mandatory.
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It will likely lead to more hate crimes and vigilantism.
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However, police are not investigating the killings as hate crimes.
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Page later got to discussing hate crimes against marginalized groups.
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Across the country, hate crimes have prompted some generous responses.
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We also have to increase our protection against hate crimes.
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Hate crimes against Muslims in Quebec appear to be increasing.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center tracks hate crimes and militias.
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" He added, "Hate crimes are almost universally crimes of violence.
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A few attacks are both terrorist acts and hate crimes.
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Read more: How will Jeff Sessions go after hate crimes?
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In March, Fields pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crimes.
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Our LGBTQ sisters and brothers are victims of hate crimes.
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Hate crimes have shot up significantly since Trump took office.
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Her 2014 book, "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace," documents the issue.
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The next year, 22017, hate crimes reached a historic high.
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"The same thing is true for hate crimes," Stacy said.
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Between 2015 and 2017, reported hate crimes increased 40 percent.
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She said she would target hate crimes and housing fraud.
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So it's likely overestimating some hate crimes and underestimating others.
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This, obviously, presents a big hurdle to preventing hate crimes.
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What sort of impact has it had on hate crimes?
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It added that hate crimes in general had been growing.
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The defendants are accused of multiple felonies, including hate crimes.
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And the hate crimes in New York and New Jersey.
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We have to do something to reduce the hate crimes.
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Reliable data on hate crimes is hard to come by.
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Hate crimes laws were federally expanded to include LGBTQ people.
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The latest numbers cover hate crimes reported through September 1.
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Flashback: Hate crimes overall had spiked by 17% in 2017.
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Who are the victims of the increase in hate crimes?
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Hate crimes against the L.G.B.T.+ community will not be tolerated.
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I personally have been the victim of multiple hate crimes.
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Because many hate crimes rely on self-reporting by the victims, a recorded spike in hate crimes or incidents could also indicate that more people are feeling empowered to come forward and report incidents.
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There may be a tendency to classify attacks motivated by racial or religious bias as hate crimes rather than terrorism, and the EU does not have uniform requirements for reporting or policing hate crimes.
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According to FBI data, 18.6 percent of anti-religion hate crimes in 2017 were inflicted upon Muslim people, and the overall number of hate crimes against Muslims has gone up exponentially since September 11.
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"The hearing today is not about white nationalism or hate crimes, it's about fear-mongering, power and control," Owens said, casting doubt on whether hate crimes in the U.S. have risen in recent years.
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Vallum was prosecuted under the Matthew Shepard, James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which was signed into law in 2009 and expanded existing federal hate crimes law to protect LGBTQ and disabled people.
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New hate crimes data released in mid-November by the F.B.I. showed that hate crimes dipped slightly in 20143, but crimes directed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people nudged up almost 6 percent.
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"I am particularly troubled by the increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes — which were already the most common religious hate crimes in the United States — that is well documented in this report," Whitaker said.
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Vallum killed her because she was transgender, making him eligible for prosecution under the 2009 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act, named for two of the country's most infamous hate crimes.
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics also found that only 35 percent of hate crimes are ultimately reported to the police, meaning that cops are unaware of roughly two-thirds of hate crimes in their communities.
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Groups that track hate crimes say assailants have sometimes mistaken followers of Sikhism, a faith that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, for Muslims, who have also been targeted in hate crimes.
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Ames was charged with attempted assault in the first and third degrees as hate crimes, assault in the second and third degrees as hate crimes and aggravated harassment, according to Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance.
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Excluding online hate crimes, which are difficult for the authorities to monitor, police data show that about 82 percent of hate crimes are racially or religiously motivated, including ones related to anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
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Klobuchar's hate crimes plan arrives as a number of candidates speak out about the importance of fighting racism and white supremacy as the number of reported hate crimes have continued to increase annually since 2014.
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Still, dealing with hate crimes is a notoriously difficult practice, in part because so many crimes are dealt with at the local and state level, and some of these areas lack formal hate crimes laws.
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The latest report from the FBI found that there was a 20.4 percent rise in reported hate crimes in 25, driven in large part by a 22016 percent rise in reported hate crimes against Muslims.
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While the hate crimes statute in Utah can be applied only to misdemeanors, it is not the case that misdemeanors in the state are bumped up to felonies when they are classified as hate crimes.
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The FBI statistics on nationwide hate crimes released last week offer an incomplete picture of the problem because local law enforcement agencies provide data voluntarily to the FBI, and many fail to report hate crimes.
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The government says perpetrators of anti-LGBT hate crimes are prosecuted.
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Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric sparked a terrifying spate of hate crimes.
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Targeting someone's motive makes it difficult to actually prosecute hate crimes.
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Dylann Roof is charged with 33 federal offenses, including hate crimes.
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Racist slogans have appeared on walls and hate crimes are up.
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There is currently no release date for Law & Order: Hate Crimes.
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But just consider that fact -- hate crimes in houses of love.
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We are worried about hate crimes against minorities and LGBTQ people.
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I reached out to experts on hate crimes with these questions.
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McLean is charged with criminal damage, institutional vandalism and hate crimes.
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"Political hate crimes should never be tolerated," he told BuzzFeed News.
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After the election, there were reports of hundreds of hate crimes.
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Federal authorities are deciding whether to prosecute Christian for hate crimes.
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The Brexit vote also led to a spike in hate crimes.
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Almost half -- 46% -- of hate crimes were committed by a stranger.
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However, it should be noted, Mark Wahlberg ACTUALLY committed hate crimes.
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Those that carry out hate crimes seek to tear communities apart.
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Of the 364 hate crimes reported in New York through Nov.
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However, hate crimes rose in 2016, according to the news outlet.
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In fact, the vast majority of hate crimes are never reported.
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All of the hate crimes against gay people come from homophobia.
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The Human Rights Campaign has advice for victims of hate crimes.
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Overall, the FBI reported a 6 percent increase in hate crimes.
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We must formalize crimes against trans individuals as hate crimes nationwide.
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Not the surge of race-based hate crimes after the election.
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Arrests for hate crimes have increased 19 percent, the police said.
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"Xenophobic and racist discourse breeds hate crimes," Bárcena tweeted on Sunday.
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Swastikas and burning pride flags: Hate crimes spike in New York.
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There was an outbreak in violence and hate crimes without warning.
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The attempted killing came as hate crimes are on the rise.
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They will be relying on a 2009 federal hate crimes statute.
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Hate crimes rose 17% in 2017, compared to the year before.
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The police have reported an increase in hate crimes across Greece.
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Reports of hate crimes surged in the days after the election.
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New York City counted 403 anti-Semitic hate crimes through Dec.
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The attack has heightened concerns about a rise in hate crimes.
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Hate speech and hate crimes against Muslim Americans have increased sharply.
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I've read the articles regarding increasing hate crimes after the election.
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NYPD officials also say arrests related to hate crimes are up.
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We must combat hate crimes in every form at every turn.
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I hate hate crimes as much as any other thinking person.
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But even the symbolic value of hate crimes charges can matter.
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Anti-Semitic hate crimes are at their highest levels in years.
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We can talk about the low numbers of hate crimes reported.
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Anti-Islamic hate crimes spiked in 213 in FBI data Hate crimes against Muslims spiked in 2015, according to FBI data, reaching their highest point since the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Although the LGBT community is not reflected in the series of apparent hate crimes of the past few days, "one of the trends we're seeing is a rise in hate crimes against LGBT people," he said.
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FBI statistics on hate crimes since 2012 have shown at least five times as many reports of hate crimes against Jews than against Muslims – a detail that Muslim Brotherhood advocates and apologists would have us ignore.
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During her first term as a senator, Klobuchar was a sponsor of the Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a bill that provided additional assistance for the investigation and prosecution of hate crimes.
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The episode renewed concerns that falsely reported hate crimes could make it more difficult for people with legitimate grievances to be taken seriously, particularly in a time when the reports of hate crimes are highly politicized.
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The F.B.I. says that a surge in hate crimes against Muslims has led to an overall increase in hate crimes in the United States; Muslims have borne the brunt of the increase with 257 recorded attacks.
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The advocacy of Shepard's friends and supporters helped lead to the creation of the 2009 Shepard-Byrd Act, a federal anti-hate crimes prevention law that extended existed hate crimes laws to include gender and sexual orientation.
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Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance announced Wednesday that Ames had been charged with attempted assault in the first and third degrees as hate crimes, assault in the second and third degrees as hate crimes, and aggravated harassment.
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In addition to discovering that hate crimes had overall increased and there had been a rise in conflict across the ideological spectrum, the report also found that anti-Muslim hate crimes had surged 78 percent in 2015.
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In 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law, expanding the federal definition of hate crimes to include victims targeted for their gender identity, sexuality, or disability.
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"I am particularly troubled by the increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes — which were already the most common religious hate crimes in the United States — that is well documented in this report," Whitaker said in the statement.
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The state reported 94 hate crimes, compared to 72 the previous year.
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"I'm concerned what this means moving forwards for hate crimes," Johnson said.
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But monitoring hate crimes is a difficult undertaking and an imperfect science.
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Hate crimes are, experts said, message crimes against certain groups of people.
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Malema is a controversial figure — he's been convicted of hate crimes, twice.
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Her portfolio has included hate crimes prosecutions, tribal justice issues, and deregulation.
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The wide discrepancy comes from how hate crimes are defined and reported.
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NBC has ordered a new Law & Order series focused on hate crimes.
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Sessions voted against the Shepard-Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009.
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There are few signs that hate crimes reporting has improved since 2016.
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Simple assault alone makes up nearly 62 percent of all hate crimes.
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All indications are that hate crimes against Muslims are on the rise.
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He since has been charged with hate crimes and violating civil rights.
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New York, where Hate Crimes is set, is included in this list.
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He has been charged with 33 federal counts, including several hate crimes.
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That&aposs the same argument that it&aposs used defending hate crimes.
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Federal authorities have opened a hate-crimes investigation into the Nashville shooting.
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And police immediately noticed an increase in the reporting of hate crimes.
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Targeting someone's motive makes it very difficult to actually prosecute hate crimes.
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In turn, terrorist acts in the U.S. are often not hate crimes.
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The Justice Department will continue to aggressively investigate and prosecute hate crimes.
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Southern Poverty Law Center has recorded 200 alleged hate crimes so far.
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Hate crimes against El Salvador's transgender community take place with remarkable impunity.
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Hate crimes in 2017 were up 17 percent from the previous year.
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That is the largest single-year increase in hate crimes since 2001.
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The assailants were arrested, and one was later charged with hate crimes.
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Bias and hate crimes investigators were assisting with the investigation, he said.
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After the referendum, there was a 42 percent increase in hate crimes.
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The police attributed the increase partly to higher awareness of hate crimes.
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There were about 340 more hate crimes in 2015 than in 2014.
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In 2015, only 603% of participating law enforcement agencies reported hate crimes.
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Overall, hate crimes rose just over 5 percent in the same year.
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" He also noted his work prosecuting hate crimes and "sexually violent predators.
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Hate crimes against Jewish people, African Americans and LGBT individuals also increased.
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Governments must make addressing, identifying, and reporting hate crimes a true priority.
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It has meant there's been an uptick in anti-trans hate crimes.
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But they also cite another factor: fear of persecution and hate crimes.
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Hate crimes continue to rise across the United States, Britain and Canada.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions promised to "aggressively" investigate and prosecute hate crimes.
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There have been reports of an increase in hate crimes against Muslims.
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Ms. Fransen was arrested in December on charges related to hate crimes.
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The Justice Department has also launched a new website on hate crimes.
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The offenses in hate crimes vary in severity from murder to vandalism.
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Historically it's been anti-black hate crimes that take the lion's share.
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We've been hearing cases of hate crimes and different kinds of aggression.
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Law enforcement needs to take hate crimes seriously and investigate them aggressively.
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Hate crimes overall were up 20% in 2019, from 256 to 428.
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In September, the NYPD noted the surge in anti-Semitic hate crimes.
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More hate crimes with racial or ethnic bias were reported on Nov.
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Cuomo called the hate crimes a "cancer" to New York's diverse population.
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Others fear the election could lead to more discrimination and hate crimes.
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Federal prosecutors charged the gunman, an avowed white nationalist, with hate crimes.
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A hate crimes bill died this week in the Indiana state Senate.
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Hate crimes are surging, as are attacks on religious and ethnic minorities.
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Hate crimes against the LGBT+ community will not be tolerated in London.
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This likely understates the number of hate crimes in the US. When the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) surveyed large segments of the population between 2004 and 2015, it concluded that there are 250,000 hate crimes annually.
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Reporting of hate crimes to the FBI is notoriously low, and an analysis of the 2017 UCR report by the Arab American Institute found that some apparent hate crimes that made headlines were not included in the report.
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In 21998, Britain recorded eight times as many hate crimes as the United States, which has five times as many people; that was 220 times the hate crimes reported in France and 88 times the total in Italy.
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As Lopez pointed out, the number of crimes formally charged as hate crimes and the number of incidents perceived as hate crimes by members of victims' communities vary wildly: The FBI reports between 6,33 and 10,000 hate crimes annually, while a survey-based approach by the US Bureau of Justice statistics focusing on victim perception suggests the number could be as high as 260,000.
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The Judiciary lawmaker asked these three officials to provide responses to three separate information requests Democrats sent in 2017 about hate crimes, and current intelligence assessments about hate crimes and how the Trump administration is responding to these findings.
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And while the federal government was bound to step in for a shooting as destructive as Orlando's, other hate crimes go uninvestigated and unprosecuted, since the feds don't have the resources to go after all anti-LGBTQ hate crimes.
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Deborah Lauter, the executive director of the newly created Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, will not investigate bias incidents; that will still be the purview of the Police Department, which has its own hate crimes task force.
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"There is simply no reliable national data on hate crimes," the website states.
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Hate crimes against minorities other than Muslims also increased, according to the report.
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There have also been reports of racist graffiti and hate crimes post-election.
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Of the 22 killings in 2015, the NCAVP classified 20113 as hate crimes.
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Hall said the FBI will help determine if the killings constitute hate crimes.
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The case sparked global outrage and calls to charge Hicks with hate crimes.
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The FBI reported that hate crimes in America rose by 7% in 2015.
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Hate crimes targeting both Jews and Muslims have dramatically increased in recent years.
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Half of all hate crimes are due to race (with all races combined).
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These laws are also necessary because hate crimes are different from other crimes.
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Hate crimes against Muslims and those perceived as Muslims spiked after 9/11.
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As such, hate crimes against Muslims in the US have been rising sharply.
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Hate crimes serve a purpose, but that purpose is not efficiency or deterrence.
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And within the last year alone, anti-Semitic hate crimes rose nine percent.
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Why are some violent acts labeled hate crimes or terrorism and others not?
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I had a trial down in Texas when I was prosecuting hate crimes.
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Any time an attack like this happens, hate crimes against Muslims go up.
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The Crown Prosecution Service does not provide guidance for misogyny-related hate crimes.
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And yet the Justice Department prosecuted only 27 hate-crimes defendants in 2016.
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A suspect has been detained and charged with 29 counts, including hate crimes.
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It's the collective attitude that Nasr said persists despite the rising hate crimes.
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Separately, he is charged with hate crimes in a 30-count federal indictment.
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You mentioned the hate crimes laws—that's one thing some have wondered about.
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Hate crimes specifically targeting Muslims increased by 67 percent, according to the report.
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Separately, Fields is charged with hate crimes in a 30-count federal indictment.
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Many legal systems around the world now classify hate crimes in some form.
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James Fields was later charged with federal hate crimes tied to Heyer's death.
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One exception was hate crimes against transgender people, which rose about 40 percent.
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The increase in reports of apparent hate crimes has worried Justice Department officials.
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And we need to incentivize every state to pass a hate crimes law.
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He was charged with hate crimes on Monday, according to The Associated Press.
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The report doesn't specify whether Roof's crime was among those four hate crimes.
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Hate crimes like these strike fear and despair in the hearts of immigrants.
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Fields is separately charged with hate crimes in a 30-count federal indictment.
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It's crucial for communities -- and politicians -- to clearly and unequivocally condemn hate crimes.
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But in too many instances, hate crimes are not addressed, prosecuted, or reported.
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These incidents continue, even as the election-related surge in hate crimes subsided.
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Protestors march outside a rally against hate speech and hate crimes this September.
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Anti-Muslim hate crimes between 2014 and 2016 jumped by nearly 600 percent.
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Mr. Roof was charged with 33 counts, including hate crimes resulting in death.
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Now, though, religious hate crimes are up nearly 210 percent, primarily against Muslims.
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"Hate crimes are violent crimes," Mr. Sessions said in a speech in June.
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Some might say that it has also inspired hate crimes and domestic terrorism.
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I saw the cost of hate crimes, deportations, and detentions across the country.
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These incidents are also being investigated as possible hate crimes, the authorities said.
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Privacy can also make us safer, especially with anti-queer hate crimes increasing.
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That means 87% of the participating agencies reported zero hate crimes in 2017.
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Dozens of hate crimes, including vicious attacks on immigrants, were attributed to skinheads.
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He would ban those convicted of hate crimes from owning or buying guns.
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It is not uncommon for young people to be charged with hate crimes.
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It is not enough to condemn the surge of hate crimes in America.
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Hate crimes and threats against immigrants and other vulnerable groups have increased dramatically.
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He was later charged with felony hate crimes in connection with the episode.
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Crusius was charged by the Justice Department last week with the hate crimes.
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She is also looking for the best way to help reduce hate crimes.
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Anti-Semitic hate crimes have been on the rise in the United States.
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What Can We as a Nation Do About the Rise in Hate Crimes?
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Currently, Texas's mandate for hate crimes does not include assaults against transgender individuals.
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That's more than the rest of religiously motivated hate crimes combined, records reveal.
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But based on the FBI's new statistics, are hate crimes against Muslims skyrocketing?
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That goes for hate crimes conducted in whole or part online, as well.
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This sends a message to the entire community that hate crimes are unacceptable.
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A spate of hate crimes was also reported nationally for a similar period.
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No hate crimes were reported throughout the entire states of Alabama and Wyoming.
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We have an exponential rise in hate crimes against Muslim women in hijab.
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Jews made up the majority of religious-based hate crimes incidents, at 58.
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A special team of 105 prosecutors has been established to investigate hate crimes.
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"We've had many incidents in Crown Heights," Rabbi Heller said about hate crimes.
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Although this evidence exists in many hate crimes, it proves elusive in others.
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The steep rise comes after a year when hate crimes were already increasing.
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Other lawmakers have invited Muslim guests who have been victims of hate crimes.
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Cook County Commissioner Jesús García had called for hate crimes charges against Trybus.
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He has been charged with hate crimes, but these churches need your help.
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It's no secret that hate crimes against Muslims have been on the rise.
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We had nine hate crimes reported in the last year of available data.
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So with or without this hate crimes bill, they're already a protected class.
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I'm not sure this hate crimes bill does anything for that at all.
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And then on Monday, the FBI released a report that seemed to indicate there was a 2000 percent rise in reported hate crimes in 2015, driven in large part by a 67 percent rise in reported hate crimes against Muslims.
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A report by the Brennan Center for Justice noted that there is a tendency to charge white supremacists with hate crimes but not with domestic terrorism, even though many perpetrators of hate crimes meet the formal and legal definitions of terrorism.
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It also would provide grants to create state-run hotlines to record information about hate crimes, help victims and witnesses get in touch with law enforcement and empower local officials to adopt policies that would identify and investigate hate crimes. Sen.
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Some organizations have redirected donations away from social services and toward social advocacy, legal fees, and outreach programs to respond to increases in anti-Muslim hate crimes, which remain above historic averages according to the 2017 FBI hate crimes statistics.
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Although hate crimes are under-reported, according to data collected by the federal government from 2004 to 2015, 15.4% of offenders in violent hate crimes were age 17 or younger, and 20123% were between the ages of 18 and 29.
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The number of hate crimes reported in Oregon increased 873 percent from 2016 to 2017, F.B.I. data showed, although half of the 2017 cases were in Eugene, a city of 170,000 that has focused on improving the reporting of hate crimes.
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In addition to the tense political climate, the increase also points to a growing awareness among various law enforcement agencies of the importance of identifying and reporting hate crimes to the F.B.I. Reporting hate crimes to the F.B.I. is currently voluntary.
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Anti-Jewish hate crimes alone were up 60.5% over 2018 in the nation's second-largest city, and represented the largest single category in 2019 -- 69 of 322 total hate crimes reported by the Los Angeles Police Department, the data show.
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Some political observers had predicted a rise in hate crimes following a Trump win, citing his controversial rhetoric and comparing his victory to the Brexit vote, which was followed by a 40 percent spike in hate crimes in the United Kingdom.
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The Justice Department also released updated statistics on hate crimes, saying in a release that over the past 10 years it has charged more than 300 defendants with hate-crimes offenses, including 50 defendants in fiscal years 2017 and 2018.
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According to a report on the use of guns in hate crimes released earlier this year by the Center for American Progress, roughly 2767,22015 hate crimes in the United States were carried out with a gun between 264 and 21980.
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Hate crimes jumped 17% in Trump's first year in office, according to the FBI.
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For example, the Las Vegas Police Department didn't report any hate crimes for 2017.
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The incident is being investigated by the Hate Crimes Task Force, the police said.
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Four people have been charged with hate crimes and kidnapping for attacking the teen.
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They convicted the 22-year-old white man of hate crimes and other charges.
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But also, may I suggest -- I&aposm not a big fan of hate crimes.
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Hate crimes can also involve hostility on the grounds of race, religion or disability.
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The indictment, which was expected, charges Robert Bowers with 44 counts, including hate crimes.
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Hate crimes against Muslims, Arabs, Iranians, and South Asians rose in the United States.
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"The area that I'm familiar with, hate crimes, it's simply not true," Barr said.
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The FBI has joined the investigation to determine whether the shootings are hate crimes.
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The NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force had been investigating the case, according to WCBS.
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There's evidence that hate crimes against Muslims are at their highest levels since 2001.
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His words and actions emboldened white nationalists and brought a rise in hate crimes.
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The rise in racist hate crimes is just one of the signs of this.
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In most states, people convicted of misdemeanor hate crimes may still legally purchase guns.
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He championed passage of the Matthew Shepard and James L. Byrd Hate Crimes Act.
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That's partly because fewer than half of victims report hate crimes to the police.
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He has not tweeted about the 700 reports of hate crimes committed between Nov.
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Hate crimes against transgender Americans tripled between 2013 to 2014 and continue to rise.
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"I am particularly troubled by the increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes," Whitaker said.
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Per FBI data, hate crimes in the U.S. surged by 17% last year alone.
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In fact, in 2017 alone, the FBI reported a 17% increase in hate crimes.
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It's the second year in a row that hate crimes against Muslims have spiked.
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India's Hindu-nationalist revival has seen an increase in reported hate crimes towards Muslims.
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The ADL also trains law enforcement officers in combating extremism, terrorism, and hate crimes.
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RELATED: Matthew Shepard's mother blasts Trump AG pick Sessions' votes on hate crimes law
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Cardiff University researchers snagged a research grant to study hate crimes incited by Brexit.
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He's not talking to Mother Emanuel church congregants about domestic terrorists and hate crimes.
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Between 2011 and 2015, 54% of violent hate crimes went unreported, the report found.
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These combined snippets of racist dialogue with accounts of hate crimes and samples galore.
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Hate crimes against people of color, Muslims, women, and the LGTBQ community have spiked.
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Authorities are trying to determine whether Christian will be charged with federal hate crimes.
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He also wants to see a change in how Missouri prosecutors handle hate crimes.
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The American Medical Association even urges the expedient passage of appropriate hate crimes legislation.
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The police force recorded a total of 1,476 hate crimes over the same period.
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The suspected shooter has pleaded not guilty to 44 federal charges, including hate crimes.
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Indiana is one of only five states without a law against hate crimes. Sen.
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No hate crimes were reported by any law enforcement agency in Alabama or Wyoming.
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TV that Smollett's account, if proven false, could negatively impact victims of hate crimes.
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According to FBI statistics, no hate crimes were reported last year in Olathe, Kansas.
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White supremacists, not antifa activists, have committed fatal hate crimes in the Trump era.
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President Obama promised, for instance, to "vigorously pursue" hate crimes and civil rights cases.
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Hate crimes and white-supremacist groups proliferated, as did threats against the President's person.
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The backlash against prejudice was predictable, but so was the upsurge in hate crimes.
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The bulk of those hate crimes were committed against black, Jewish and Muslim Americans.
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In addition to the state charges, Fields also faces 30 federal hate crimes charges.
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Hate crimes against Jews and Muslims have increased annually since President Trump took office.
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He fought legislation to define attacks committed because of sexual orientation as hate crimes.
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An underlying theme here is that hate crimes are often either exaggerated or fictitious.
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All available data point to an increase of racist, antisemitic, and other hate crimes.
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Stacy says the lack of support for LGBT victims of hate crimes is troubling.
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The city of Charleston reported four hate crimes in 2015, according to the FBI.
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As a result, the FBI looks for possible hate crimes, weapons and other violations.
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Andrew Cuomo directed the State Police Hate Crimes Unit to assist in the investigation.
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Muslim Advocates offers a directory of federal and state resources for reporting hate crimes.
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Britain recorded 71,140 hate crimes in the 2015-16 financial year, ending in March.
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Given the history of the Nazi era, Germany is especially sensitive to hate crimes.
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Jayapal created the organization, called OneAmerica, in response to hate crimes after the Sept.
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Protests have peppered the nation since the election amid reports hate crimes have spiked.
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The FBI has reported that verified hate crimes have increased every year since 6900.
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The story shows that hate crimes are still a real threat for LGBTQ Americans.
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The suspect in the attack, James Fields, was later charged with federal hate crimes.
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Roof faces 33 federal charges, including hate crimes, obstruction of religion, and firearms charges.
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Many called attention to hate crimes (and anti-hate crime vigils) local to Brooklyn.
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LGBTQ acceptance is slipping in this culture, and hate crimes are on the rise.
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Portland has been on edge over a sharp increase in hate crimes this year.
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Kaminsky said the measure is in response to the spike in hate crimes nationwide.
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Roof, an avowed white supremacist, was convicted of federal murder and hate crimes charges.
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Ms. Heard's arrest comes amid a rise in reported hate crimes throughout the city.
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In 2018, Los Angeles recorded its highest level of hate crimes in a decade.
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In the past few months, there have been more examples of potential hate crimes.
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The question was deceptively simple: What happens to the families of hate crimes' victims?
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Hate crimes are notoriously hard to track as reporting to the F.B.I. is voluntary.
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They are the ones who tend to commit hate crimes or even murder Muslims.
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Reports of anti-Semitic hate crimes rose to 145, up from 85033, through Aug.
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He declared a determination to institute the death penalty for mass murder hate crimes.
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But the F.B.I.'s annual total of hate crimes nationwide typically hovers around 5,000.
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Germany reported nearly 10 hate crimes a day against migrants and refugees in 2016.
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Police have not ruled out the possibility that those bombings could be hate crimes.
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He faces 33 federal charges, including hate crimes, obstruction of religion and firearms offenses.
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This Week in Hate How many hate crimes have been committed since the election?
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Not all crimes motivated by hate are covered by the federal hate crimes law.
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According to a recent analysis, hate crimes have risen sharply on Mr. Modi's watch.
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Reports of anti-Semitic hate crimes rose to 145, up from 88, through Aug.
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So why has one man been charged with hate crimes but not the other?
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The NYPD breaks down hate crimes into 12 different categories, including anti-Semitic incidents.
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There was a startling increase in hate crimes in New York City from Jan.
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They make up 53.7% of all reported hate crimes, according to NYPD Crime Statistics.
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FBI data suggests that anti-Muslim hate crimes remain near the highest levels recorded.
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Since Brexit, the country has seen a spike in hate crimes and racist abuse.
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According to the FBI, anti-Sikh hate crimes skyrocketed 200% from 2017 to 2018.
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In fact, there have already been hate crimes against Asians related to the coronavirus.
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Of the 1,600, nine resulted in convictions for discrimination-related offenses, including hate crimes.
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Smith added that the city usually experiences a "very low" number of hate crimes.
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Hate crimes will be documented by the FBI, as they were for last year.
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Compared to 2015, there were increases in reported hate crimes nearly across the board.
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A large number of hate crimes and domestic terrorist acts are committed with firearms.
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Levin also noted that anti-Semitic hate crimes are on the rise in 2017.
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Hate crimes against Muslims in the US are at their highest levels since 2001.
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That presents a major challenge: While the federal government will take on some of these cases, it doesn't have the resources to enforce its law against all hate crimes nationwide — so a gap in state laws means some hate crimes will go unpunished.
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In 2009, former President Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which expanded a federal hate crimes law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
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It remains hard to establish a causal relationship between tweets and hate crimes because of general national trends like increasing hate crime rates, discrepancies and changes in the way different cities report hate crimes, and changing Twitter practices that make analysis difficult.
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The FBI's information shows that crimes motivated by race or ethnicity, which rose 2100% in 2100, accounted for a majority of all incidents reported, with hate crimes specifically targeting African-Americans representing the greatest share, while anti-Arab hate crimes increased 2000%.
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Washington D.C. logged 205 hate crimes, nearly double from two years earlier, and Chicago saw hate crimes rise by 26 percent in 2018, according to an analysis by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
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The 21-count indictment charges him with 2000 counts of hate crimes resulting in death, 210 counts of hate crimes involving attempted murder for those who were wounded and 45 counts of discharging a firearm in the commission of a hate crime.
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The bureau's Uniform Crime Report, which catalogs data about hate crimes, documented 257 anti-Muslim hate crimes — up from 154 in 2014 — and 5,2023 total incidents reported to police last year, a 6.8 percent increase over the 5,479 incidents reported in 21625.
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That may give rise to a dark new wave of bigoted politicians and hate crimes.
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The Transport Police were marching with a banner for #WeStandTogether, a campaign against hate crimes.
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But once these low-level acts are defined as hate crimes, then they get attention.
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Instead he should promise that the Justice Department will investigate and prosecute all hate crimes.
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The FBI has joined the investigation to determine whether the shootings are federal hate crimes.
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Hate crimes Hate crime incidents in the US neared 6,000 in both 2013 and 2015.
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New London NAACP members say they have received complaints of hate crimes at the academy.
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Before the election, those from the LGBTQ community were the likeliest targets of hate crimes.
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Although hate crimes fell overall from 2012 to 2014, those against Muslims more than doubled.
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They were charged with various counts of forced labor, forced sex trafficking, and hate crimes.
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The news struck as Britain was coming to terms with an increase in hate crimes.
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Dreiband spoke earlier in the event about the Justice Department's commitment to prosecuting hate crimes.
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Their wins come after two years of increased Islamophobic hate crimes following Donald Trump's election.
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"Although this evidence exists in many hate crimes, it proves elusive in others," Cullen wrote.
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Correlation is not causation, but FBI data show a recent uptick in reported hate crimes.
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Some police departments also seem to conflate gathering data on hate crimes with their prosecution.
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Among them, Lynch cited a 212 percent increase in hate crimes committed against Muslim-Americans.
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Among them, Lynch cited a 67 percent increase in hate crimes committed against Muslim-Americans.
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NBC announced on Tuesday that it has ordered 13 episodes of Law & Order: Hate Crimes.
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In 2017, there was a new surge in hate crimes against racial and ethnic minorities.
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The U.S. government prosecuted him on 33 charges that included hate crimes resulting in death.
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Safety: Task the DOJ with prosecuting hate crimes against LGTBQ people and people of color.
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As reported by Vox, anti-Muslim hate crimes saw the biggest increase (20%) in 133.
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There are several studies that find a significant rise in hate crimes against religious minorities.
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Relatedly, FBI data released in early November 2018 showed hate crimes rose 17% in 2017.
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The number of ideologically motivated hate crimes and terrorism homicides have trended differently over time.
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Through the 1990s, the number of hate crimes remained relatively stable, then declined through 2004.
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Anti-LGBTQ hate crimes, on the other hand, tend to be physical confrontations, Molinari said.
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He was convicted of hate crimes and sentenced to death, but never charged with terrorism.
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Since Election Day, social and news media have been filled with reports of hate crimes.
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In 2014, the data showed Muslim hate crimes were second only to anti-Jewish crimes.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center reported a sharp spike in hate crimes following Trump's victory.
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Here are the GOP senators who voted AGAINST treating anti-LGBT attacks as hate crimes.
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"Hate crimes against Latinos have risen 69 percent in Los Angeles alone," the editors continued.
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My family -- we are not the kind of family that is targeted by hate crimes.
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There was a 41% increase in hate crimes in the UK after the Brexit vote.
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There were 295 hate crimes reported in the city over the comparable period in 0003.
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Of 1,679 religious hate crimes reported, 58.1% were anti-Jewish, while 18.6% were anti-Muslim.
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The billionaire's contribution will also partially help fund better tools for tracking hate crimes nationally.
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Suspected gunman Robert Bowers has pleaded not guilty to 44 federal charges, including hate crimes.
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Officials were also probing whether or not the first three explosions qualified as hate crimes.
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Those fears have been exacerbated by the rise of hate crimes and mass killings nationwide.
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Prosecutors have also alleged four of the eight counts of criminal threats constitute hate crimes.
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He lamented the rise of hate crimes, and accused Trump of inciting violence against Rep.
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Of the 1,749 anti-religious hate crimes, 58.1% were the product of anti-Jewish bias.
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We've seen a rise in hate crimes, every single one of the last three years.
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Thousands of hate crimes -- 20103,121 -- were reported to the FBI in 2016, the report found.
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The survey estimated that 60% of the hate crimes submitted weren't reported to the police.
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The suspected gunman, Robert Bowers, pleaded not guilty to 44 federal charges, including hate crimes.
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In England and Wales, about a quarter of reported hate crimes were prosecuted last year.
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The shift to a perception-based definition of hate crimes emerged from the Lawrence case.
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Bowers is in custody and has been charged with 29 counts, including multiple hate crimes.
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Hate crimes targeting LGBT people have also been linked to rhetoric that dehumanizes and stigmatizes.
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The suspect, James Fields, was charged in a 30-count indictment with federal hate crimes.
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What's worse is these hate crimes against trans people are even happening in the workplace.
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Shortly after the vote, the UK saw a staggering increase in racially-motivated hate crimes.
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Given that everyone targeted for conflagration was female, the police have considered these hate crimes.
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And the F.B.I. reported that hate crimes surged last year, led by attacks on Muslims.
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And it will lead to more hate crimes and attacks on racial and religious minorities.
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Then the Justice Department sent a federal hate-crimes lawyer to aid in the prosecution.
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In case you hadn't noticed, we're in the midst of a wave of hate crimes.
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Partly through denial, pretending not to see any link between hateful rhetoric and hate crimes.
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But the Atomwaffen-linked killings have been prosecuted as murder or hate crimes — not terrorism.
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The Police Department confirmed on Wednesday that its hate crimes unit was investigating the incident.
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It is also unclear whether federal prosecutors could file hate crimes charges in the case.
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Statistics on hate crimes are notoriously unreliable, but the evidence strongly suggests that they're rising.
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According to F.B.I. data, the day after Mr. Trump was elected, racial hate crimes increased.
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Certainly we know from watchdog organizations that hate crimes and hate group memberships are rising.
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This year, 290 hate crimes in the city have been reported to the Police Department.
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That's because the FBI's national statistics on hate crimes and annual report are deeply flawed.
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He has not asked the Civil Rights Division to investigate the increase in hate crimes.
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Hate crimes rose 17% during the first year of Trump's presidency, according to the FBI.
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The shooter in that event, Dylann Roof, was convicted of federal hate crimes in 2016.
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Where was his voice, however, when similar hate crimes against immigrants and their defenders occurred?
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Burden is seen committing violent hate crimes around the city in the trailer's opening moments.
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Detective Martinez, a 25-year veteran of the department, became hate crimes coordinator in 2018.
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Chicago had a 46 percent increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes, to 19, through Nov.
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In 2017, hate crimes against American Jews spiked more than against any other religious group.
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There were 1,115 documented hate crimes against people because of their sexual orientation in 2014.
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"Following the election we've witnessed a wave of hate crimes and anti-Semitism," said Rosen.
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Data on hate crimes — against Jews and everyone else — is miserably incomplete and poorly tracked.
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He also plans to propose a law that would label hate crimes as domestic terrorism.
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In New York, police reported a 26% jump in anti-Semitic hate-crimes last year.
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Right-wing media also picked up the case as evidence that hate crimes are hoaxes.
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He was convicted of hate crimes and sentenced to death but never charged with terrorism.
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Where the attack happened, some statistics behind hate crimes, and maps of Charleston's shifting population.
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Found guilty of murder and hate crimes, the gunman now sits on federal death row.
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Andrew Cuomo weighed in and directed a state hate crimes task force to help investigate.
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Officials are looking for the man and the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
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"Our investigation of these hate crimes continues," US Attorney Scott Brady said earlier this week.
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He began with a mention of Black History Month and a condemnation of hate crimes.
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Around the country, hate crimes against Latinos and immigrants have risen in the Trump era.
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More than 16 percent of anti-religious hate crimes targeted Muslims, according to the FBI.
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A jury convicted 16 members of hate crimes, conspiring to conceal evidence and other counts.
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The rare instances of false claims must not overshadow the alarming increase in hate crimes.
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Hate crimes reached a 287-year high in 0393, according to the FBI's annual report.
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Most of the hate crimes — about 60% — were motivated by race, ethnicity, or ancestry bias.
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However, the episode comes amid a rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York.
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There were 55 hate crimes reported in New York City this year as of Feb.
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The center believes that less than 1 percent of all reported hate crimes are false.
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Australia, unlike the United States, Canada and other Western countries, does not track hate crimes.
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The hate crimes recorded last year included nine murders and 24 rapes, the report said.
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The Louisiana hate crimes statute still includes crimes committed against people for their immutable characteristics.
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Hate crimes could now be met with a level of skepticism that they weren't before.
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Separately, Barr also wrote that he'll maintain the Justice Department's priority to address hate crimes.
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In response to an uptick in hate crimes nationally and statewide, Illinois state lawmakers introduced a bill last year to expand the list of offenses that could be charged and prosecuted as hate crimes, which included acts of intimidation, cyberstalking, and sending obscene messages.
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In Virginia, Herring recently asked state lawmakers for more authority to prosecute hate crimes -- and to broaden the state's definition of hate crimes to more closely match federal law -- because, he said, he fears a less active Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department.
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This is despite the chilling sense of insecurity they inflict on the LGBTQ community, which is disproportionately targeted in hate crimes -- the FBI reported that almost 20% of hate crimes in 2014 (the most recent figures available) were based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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The report also noted that race hate crimes, which made up the vast bulk of all hate crimes, had increased after a man drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London killing four people before stabbing a policeman to death outside parliament.
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"If we start to see more people using guns targeting others because of race, religion, ethnicity, immigration status, it's going to really change the game for hate crimes," said Jack McDevitt, a leading expert on hate crimes at Northeastern University's Institute on Race and Justice.
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In recent years, police figures suggest that hate crimes toward Muslims have been rising across the country, with spikes in religiously motivated hate crimes after terror attacks in and around Paris in 2015, in London in 2016 and 20123, and in Manchester, England, in 2017.
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More broadly, although the FBI's report is the most comprehensive look at the nation's hate crimes released every year, it is known to be woefully inadequate — because other federal surveys suggest it may undercount the number of hate crimes by the hundreds of thousands.
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In the U.S., hate crimes increased by 17% from 2016 to 2017, according to FBI statistics.
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I've wondered about this over the years, as fake hate crimes surface from time to time.
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The worst fake hate crimes, though, are the ones claimed by people who are criminals themselves.
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More than 3,000 state and local agencies don't report hate crimes to the FBI at all.
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Andrew Cuomo said it has to do with the spike in hate crimes following the election.
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The report showed 5,818 hate crimes last year, an increase of around 413 percent since 2014.
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Yet online romance scams are significantly more likely used to commit wire fraud than hate crimes.
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Jurors convicted Roof, an avowed white supremacist, last month of federal murder and hate crimes charges.
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Police officers can't accurately report hate crimes if they don't know who's being attacked and why.
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The group keeps a detailed tracker of incidents and Islamophobia and alleged hate crimes against Muslims.
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Religious-based hate crimes are next in the ranking, with 53% of those offenses targeting Jews.
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So Green, Glaser, and Rich extended the analysis to look at racist and homophobic hate crimes.
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Nadler's committee held a hearing in April about the rise of white nationalism and hate crimes.
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He denounced "race-motivated hate crimes" that had recently occurred at four Massachusetts State University campuses.
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Andrew Cuomo (D) to announce Saturday the state's hate crimes task force will investigate the incident.
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Our team investigated and determined this site violates our TOS by inciting violence or hate crimes.
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The safety pin is a way to show solidarity to victims of hate crimes and harassment.
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It is time for the double standards, vitriolic rhetoric, and hate crimes against Muslims to end.
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In 1995, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act upped the penalty for hate crimes.
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Fully fund the programs under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
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The suspect in that case pleaded not guilty this week to hate crimes and arson charges.
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The referendum provoked an ugly spike of 50% or so in racial and religious hate crimes.
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Dozens of hate crimes against gay and black Brazilians were reported between the election's two rounds.
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Sectarian hate-crimes have fallen by more than half since 2005, when they started being recorded.
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That includes an announcement in 2015 that the FBI would begin tracking hate crimes against Sikhs.
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At 3 AM, people make searches like "kill Muslims," and these actually predict hate crimes later.
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"Hate crimes have no place in our society," Denham said in a statement to Fox News.
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Flynn's son, Michael Flynn Jr., traffics in hate crimes You poor thing…..need a coloring book?
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Meanwhile, there has been a 67 percent rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes from 2014-2015.
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However, Molinari said they have seen spikes in hate crimes during the last few election seasons.
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Since the legislation was passed in 2009, only 29 federal hate crimes have resulted in convictions.
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Most crimes are not prosecuted as hate crimes because there's rigorous standard that must be met.
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This was accompanied by a 44% increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes during the same period.
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The law, which added sexual orientation to the federal hate crimes statue, was passed in 2009.
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All defendants were also indicted with "bias crime enhancements" -- referring to hate crimes -- to the charges.
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Hate crimes in America are on the rise among virtually every minority, including against LGBTQ people.
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Hate crimes against trans people are not taken seriously by the justice system or the public.
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NBC announced Tuesday that it will be making a "Law & Order" spinoff focusing on hate crimes.
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Andrew Cuomo announced he has directed the State Hate Crimes Unit to assist in the investigation.
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Police reported a total of 2,073 hate crimes in 2017, compared to 20143,409 the year before.
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Despite hate crimes, large and small, throughout his life, Wilde fought back with his fearless flamboyance.
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Sen. Cory Booker is asking the Obama administration to investigate a recent increase in hate crimes.
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Instead, domestic terrorists are charged with other existing crimes, such as murder, conspiracy, and hate crimes.
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And over the past few years, hate crimes in America have skyrocketed, particularly against Jewish communities.
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After 2001, the numbers of hate crimes against Muslims dropped, but they remained higher than before.
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The center suggests that President-elect Donald Trump may have influenced the uptick in hate crimes.
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In 2012, the bureau conducted a hate crime survey that measured hate crimes perceived by victims.
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"We don't want this to happen again, we don't want these hate crimes," said Lopez Obrador.
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Friday condemned a rise in hate crimes against Muslims in America.
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The number of anti-transgender hate crimes are rising each year with no end in sight.
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After the 9/11 attacks, for example, hate crimes against Arabs and Muslims rose by 1,600%.
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Young people experience violent hate crimes at a higher rate than people age 50 and over.
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Meanwhile, France's National Human Rights Commission has reported a dramatic increase in anti-muslim hate crimes.
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On the table: race, hate crimes, Russia, Putin, climate change, women, feminism, and abortion, per Politico.
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Civil rights groups are angry Canada still doesn't collect data on hate crimes against trans people.
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The proposed bill would require the local district attorney to investigate these incidents as hate crimes.
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A suspect, Robert Bowers, surrendered to the authorities and was charged with hate crimes and murder.
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In recent years, victims of hate crimes could often count on politicians to publicly support them.
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Reported hate crimes against Muslims in the U.S. are at the highest level since 9/11.
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Reported hate crimes against Muslims in the U.S. are at the highest level since 212/20163.
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"We recognize that hate crimes, if you will, are a serious topic," Moore told the paper.
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It also only counts nonfatal hate crimes, since victims of fatalities obviously can't report a crime.
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According to the Sikh Coalition, the number of hate crimes against Sikhs have risen since 2012.
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Statistics show that a majority of hate crimes in New York City are directed against Jews.
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They've worried over the staggering rise of white nationalist speech and explicitly anti-Semitic hate crimes.
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The total number of reported hate crimes in the city has also risen since last year.
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After that spike in hate crimes, Mr. Soros, 87, committed $10 million to preventing such violence.
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There were 339 hate crimes reported in New York City in 2017, according to the report.
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And Ms. Montez's case shows the difficulties advocates face in tracking killings and other hate crimes.
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He was indicted in January on 63 federal crimes, including 11 hate crimes leading to death.
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What do you think about hate-crimes legislation as a way to combat anti-queer violence?
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He also said he had asked the Hate Crimes Task Force to assist the local authorities.
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The biggest jump was in anti-Muslim hate crimes, which rose by 93 percent last year.
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Hate crimes, including gender-based ones, were up 12.5% in America's ten largest cities in 2017.
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The occurrence of Hate Crimes saw a slight uptick of five percent over the previous year.
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Hate Crimes are considered to be the top investigative priority of the FBI's Civil Rights program.
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Hate crimes and other incidents of bias have flared up, as documented by many news organizations.
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According to a recent analysis, hate crimes have risen sharply against Muslims and lower-caste Hindus.
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The Merseyside police force recorded a 75 percent increase in hate crimes from 2012 to 2016.
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Anxiety in these neighborhoods has mounted as anti-Semitic hate crimes around the country have risen.
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Another bill would give the attorney general and his office the ability to prosecute hate crimes.
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The legislature will also consider a set of bills aimed at cracking down on hate crimes.
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Kristen Gillibrand said she hopes this incident doesn't diminish the voices of survivors of hate crimes.
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In 2016, Soros committed to spending several billion dollars in an effort to counter hate crimes.
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Violence and hate crimes against Latinos have risen to their highest levels in almost a decade.
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FBI efforts to encourage the public to report hate crimes could be yielding benefits, he said.
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And Johnson is worried about what the case could mean for victims of actual hate crimes.
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"Hate crimes against any of our communities have no place in DC." View the discussion thread.
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Sixty percent of all reported religious-based hate crimes from that year were directed against Jews.
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He was charged with assault, unlawful imprisonment, menacing and harassment as hate crimes, and related charges.
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Hate crimes increased in the U.S. last year, according to new data released by the FBI.
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Hate crimes are up citywide, but in Crown Heights, they have taken a particularly violent turn.
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Consider some of the "hate crimes" that have garnered tremendous attention in the past two years.
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The state police hate crimes task force task force has been instructed by New York Gov.
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"We need a holistic policy for the fight against hate crimes and trans people," Hun argues.
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There are reasons to doubt that we're seeing a big post-Trump rise in hate crimes.
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"Extending hate crimes protections to law enforcement officers is profoundly inappropriate and misguided," the letter states.
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We still have five states in this country that do not have hate crimes statutes, period.
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The same is true today—with recent figures showing a "shocking rise" in homophobic hate crimes.
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Wade era, to a time when all race-based hate crimes were labeled as basically normal.
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Forty-three percent of 2016 hate crimes in Philadelphia, for example, happened in November and December.
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Reports of hate crimes against Muslims in the US are at their highest levels since 2001.
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" James Nolan, a former F.B.I. crime analyst who teaches about hate crimes at West Virginia University, said that the data seemed to show "a real spike" in hate crimes against American Muslims, caused in part by candidates' "raising the specter that radical Islam is at our doorstep.
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This compounds the problem: First, hate crimes are less likely to be acknowledged in these districts, which creates an unsafe space for vulnerable individuals; secondly, since the crimes aren't reported even if they occur, areas with high rates of hate crimes may be overlooked by the FBI.
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"We are determined not to tolerate hate-filled violence in our communities, so we're going to aggressively investigate those cases," Wray said, adding that there has been an increase in "the reporting of hate crimes," but that this doesn't automatically mean more hate crimes were happening.
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They regularly broke federal and state law, committing crimes ranging from thefts to hate crimes to murder.
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LGBT people are not legally protected from hate crimes, nor are they protected from discrimination at work.
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The FBI's most recent report on hate crimes, released in November, showed a 17% rise in 2017.
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Many believe Trump is sowing the seeds for white supremacist hate crimes, xenophobia and other strange fruit.
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Each year the fakes can be counted fairly easily, while real hate crimes number in the thousands.
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There was, not coincidentally, an increase in hate crimes against Muslims in America by 67% last year.
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In the week after Christchurch, anti-Muslim hate crimes reported across Britain increased by a staggering 593%.
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Although homosexuality and being transgender are not illegal in Turkey, LGBTI people face discrimination and hate crimes.
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The top stresses about the nation's future were healthcare, the economy, trust in government, and hate crimes.
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Hate crimes not only harm the victim, but also the group in which the targeted member belongs.
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In the aftermath, the FBI removed the SPLC from its list of legitimate resources on hate crimes.
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This is the stance that New York City takes and the NYPD takes in addressing hate crimes.
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To that end, some groups are emphasizing the gay community's vulnerability to hate crimes and domestic violence.
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Researchers said the figures are an underestimate as many hate crimes are not reported, investigated or prosecuted.
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Bolsonaro supporters have already been connected to a string of assaults and hate crimes this past week.
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The Law & Order franchise is aiming to reflect the increase in hate crimes in large US cities.
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On Monday, the American College Of Physicians published a statement recognizing hate crimes as a health hazard.
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Of those that do, nearly 90% tell the feds that no hate crimes happened on their watch.
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We identified two further possible hate crimes in Mesquite, a suburb on the other side of Dallas.
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By the numbers: More than half of the hate crimes reported last year were motivated by race.
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In 2017, at least three Sikh men have been killed and another wounded in apparent hate crimes.
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Hate crimes targeting Muslims more than doubled this year, from 12 to 25, according to the report.
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And racially and ethnically motivated hate crimes reported to the FBI fell 48% between 1994 and 2015.
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But when it comes to anti-Muslim hate crimes, Trump's reactions are often halfhearted, delayed, or nonexistent.
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They have alarmingly high rates of poverty and suicide, and often fall victim to violent hate crimes.
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Incidents of violence and hate crimes in the U.K. and the U.S have resulted in similar approaches.
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The Justice Department said in 22015 that the majority of hate crimes go unreported to law enforcement.
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In 2015 lawmakers recognized hate crimes motivated by gender or sexual orientation and imposed tougher jail sentences.
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Hate crimes, particularly against people of color and the LGBT community, are real and on the rise.
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Second: Muhammad's Facebook posts that "he does not like white people" illustrate another problem with hate crimes.
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These differences also makes it harder to link specific hate crimes with instances of hate on Twitter.
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These attacks also purposefully target racial, sexual orientation or religious minorities, and so are hate crimes too.
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"When you're getting into LGBTQ (hate crimes), a lot of them are more personal interaction," he said.
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From 220-19723 June, reports of hate crimes went up by 21972% to more than 22013,22016 allegations.
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In comparison, the report said just 25% of non-hate crimes involved some form of violent crime.
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The subcommittee held a one-day summit Thursday to address hate crimes and how to reduce them.
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The Senate also unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution condemning racial, religious and ethnic hate crimes last April.
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But the FBI doesn't track whether the victims in those religious hate crimes are male or female.
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It's also a reimagining of the hate crimes I've seen on the news since the Brexit referendum.
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The FBI reported 257 hate crimes against Muslims in 2015, an increase from 154 crimes in 2014.
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In fact, this charge is frequently used as a political tool to dismiss concerns about hate crimes.
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The attacks in Harlow follow a surge in hate crimes around the EU referendum on June 23rd.
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Since the results of this week's election, there has been a rise in hate crimes and attacks.
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One day before the attack was reported, a proposed hate crimes bill failed in the Indiana Legislature.
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A grand jury last year indicted him on 33 charges of federal hate crimes and firearms violations.
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The F.B.I. said 278 hate crimes against Latinos were reported in 22018, up from 287 in 216.
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Hate crimes against Muslims more than doubled in in 2017, with a total of 349 reported incidents.
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A hate crimes statute passed in 2009 became the first federal law to explicitly protect transgender people.
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After everything that's happened this week with mass shootings, hate crimes, children dying, it's all too much.
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Hate crimes, by their very nature, disproportionately target and hurt communities of color and other minority groups.
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"The L.G.B.T. community has survived so much before, from AIDS to hate crimes," said Ms. Lentz, 46.
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In the city of Los Angeles, Frank said the number of reported hate crimes has slightly increased.
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The NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force now have the suspect—a 12 year old male—in custody.
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Among her many accomplishments is a hate-crimes act, passed in 43, that includes protections for homosexuals.
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The accused perpetrator is in custody and has been charged with 29 counts, including multiple hate crimes.
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To a question about a rise in hate crimes, Scott said the trend predates the president's campaign.
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Indeed, recent research has shown a direct rise in hate crimes in communities that host Trump rallies.
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Part of the debate here surrounds the legal definition of hate crimes, which some consider too subjective.
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The accused perpetrator is in custody and has been charged with 29 counts, including multiple hate crimes.
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Still, he noted, much work needs to be done to raise awareness of anti-LGBT hate crimes.
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Without protections in these states, it's hard to track how many hate crimes against LGBT people occur.
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The FBI reported 257 hate crimes against Muslims in 2015, an increase from 123 crimes in 2014.
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South Carolina does not have hate crime laws, so Roof couldn't be charged locally for hate crimes.
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The candidate has spoken out against "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and has championed anti-hate crimes legislation.
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"Ever since 9/11 happened, a lot of hate crimes have occurred against the Sikhs," Azad said.
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It helps to investigate and prosecute hate crimes and helps transgender crime survivors navigate the criminal process.
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Nationally hate crimes in general rose by 5 percent, but in Alberta, they rose by 39 percent.
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He has been charged with 29 federal crimes, including hate crimes, in addition to 36 local charges.
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That makes LGBT people more likely to be targeted for hate crimes than any other minority group.
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Police said they took hate crimes seriously and were continually looking to improve the way they worked.
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The authorities stopped invoking possible hate crimes and seemed to drop racial motivation from their statements altogether.
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Oftentimes, the guilty were not punished, and hate crimes were encouraged by speeches from senior BJP leaders.
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Since then, the FBI has published a survey on all reported hate crimes in the United States.
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Wisconsin and Alfred's justifications for his crime, black people have a historically fraught relationship with hate crimes.
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He recognizes the possibility of hate crimes, but he has always felt most safe at gay clubs.
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But the number of rapes and hate crimes reported to the police rose sharply, the police said.
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This narrative is clear to the American public, with hate crimes now surpassing post-9/11 levels.
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Anti-Semitic hate crimes are up 18 percent compared with last year, according to the Police Department.
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The counts include hate crimes and using a firearm to commit murder in a crime of violence.
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It is 2018, hate crimes that are acted upon because of religion should have stopped years ago.
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David Leonhardt points to data that shows rising hate crimes and racist speech parallel to Trump's rise.
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Half the hate crimes, 1,739, were targeted at blacks, showing the potency of the nation's original sin.
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But if you look at the federal hate crimes report, it's like it never happened at all.
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From 2016 to 2017, there was a 24% increase in hate crimes against Hispanic and Latino Americans.
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Most mass shootings fall within the categories of domestic violence, hate crimes or retribution killing, she added.
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Both Venezuela and Uruguay warned their residents about violence and hate crimes in the United States Monday.
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He's also urging Congress to pass legislation he sponsored to help strengthen the reporting of hate crimes.
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Ten years ago, the United States took a significant step forward in our response to hate crimes.
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The Hispanic woman's injuries, in addition to the two black men's deaths, sparked fears of hate crimes.
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Here are some reports of hate crimes and harassment that have drawn public attention in recent days.
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The F.B.I. releases annual statistics on hate crimes, but not every incident is reported to the agency.
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It's not unusual to see some false claims amid an uptick in hate crimes, said Ms. Beirich.
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The hate crimes law traces to the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and has been expanded since.
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We received a range of answers like deer ticks and shoddy grammar, to bigotry and hate crimes.
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As the FBI recently reported, in 2018, Jews were the overwhelming target of religious-based hate crimes.
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Police presence will increase in three Brooklyn neighborhoods in response to a surge of reported hate crimes.
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Governor Cuomo said he had ordered the State Police hate crimes task force to investigate the stabbings.
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As of now, hate crimes must be prosecuted at the federal level or through a commonwealth attorney.
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"I'm extremely distressed by the upsurge in violence, hate crimes committed against the Jewish community," Barr said.
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A jury found him guilty of all 33 counts against him, including hate crimes resulting in death.
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The NYPD said arrests related to hate crimes are up compared to the same period last year.
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Permanent curricula on hate crimes will launch in the 2020-2021 school year, available to schools citywide.
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Gopin's ordeal was one of a growing number of anti-Semitic hate crimes reported across the country.
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Citing lack of evidence, the FBI also declined to pursue a federal hate crimes case against Urbanski.
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Attacks on Jews have long accounted for a significant share of hate crimes in the United States.
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Law enforcement reported 28503,22019 hate crimes motivated by religious bias in 2016, according to the FBI report.
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We will not stop our efforts until all 50 states have comprehensive and effective hate crimes statutes.
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The report says 485 hate crimes were reported against Latinos in 2018, compared to 43o in 2017.
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Kenneth Lyons, traveled the nation talking about Jasper, hate crimes and the role faith played in reconciliation.
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For those hate crimes that do not involve interstate travel or communication, the law can't be invoked.
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There's some overlap between these categories, meaning some hate crimes can involve, say, both assault and robbery.
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There have been 2014 hate crimes reported in the city this year, according to the Police Department.
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The group says that hate crimes are greatly underreported, and the true figures are likely significantly higher.
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His candidacy alone was marked by hate crimes across the south in cities like Charleston and Charlottesville.
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On average, 12.6 hate crimes against Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim are reported per month.
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Federal officials have been investigating a recent wave of bomb threats and hate crimes for several months.
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Possible plans include producing a video that would offer a student-to-student message against hate crimes or hateful incidents that are happening in schools across the country, or partnering with organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center to help monitor hate crimes or hate incidents in schools.
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According to the Los Angeles Human Relations Commission, hate crimes against Asian Americans tripled in the US in 280 as part of an overall growing rate of violence against people of color; one civil rights organization recently responded by establishing the first tracker of hate crimes against Asian Americans.
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The more hate crimes are missed, the more hidden the scope of hate in the US. Though the Indiana State Police attempt to keep track of the number of hate crimes in the state, the lack of a hate crime law allows local agencies to ignore the issue.
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He said he was removing hate crimes from the division's portfolio, moving the Hate Crimes Task Force, which has been in the spotlight in recent weeks following a surge in anti-Semitic incidents, under the Special Investigations Division, which also houses the cybercrime and major crime units, he said.
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Gavin NewsomGavin Christopher NewsomSan Jose to propose turning PG&E utility into a cooperative: report 10 years after its passage, there's a lot we can do to build on the Hate Crimes Prevention Act Marine Corps vet who served in Iraq faces deportation to El Salvador, where he left at age 3: report MORE is rolling out a hate crimes task force, and legislators in the Georgia state Senate are attempting to close the gap in protecting communities against hate crimes.
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"Cutting through the legal jargon, we have three federal hate crimes and three federal firearm offenses," Russell said.
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Roof's sentencing "sends a strong message" about the intolerance for hate crimes, Malcolm Graham told the Associated Press.
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Despite opposing the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a spokeswoman said as attorney general, Sessions would enforce the law.
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"The much-hyped epidemic of hate crimes you've heard so much about is essentially made up," Carlson said.
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Seventy-seven hate crimes were reported in the Windy City in 2018, up from 61 the previous year.
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In November, the FBI reported that hate crimes jumped 17 percent in 2017 compared to the previous year.
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Bowers, who expressed violently anti-Semitic views on the website Gab, has been charged with federal hate crimes.
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We both help them investigate hate crimes ... Right, and focus on who needs to be focused on. Focus.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story said Muslims were most often targeted in religion-oriented hate crimes.
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Or, what if you're Muslim and worried about your safety amid rising reports of harassment and hate crimes?
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A church book discussion about lynchings piqued Wesley Edwards' curiosity in area hate crimes, leading to Austin Callaway.
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The FBI has joined the investigation and will determine whether he will be charged with federal hate crimes.
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Police say they are not treating the explosions as hate crimes, but they are not ruling anything out.
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We talk to people who have been victims of hate crimes and violence, which is a real threat.
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Jeff Sessions' nomination to become President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general, citing his opposition to hate crimes legislation.
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Tragically, American Jews continue to be the largest target of religious-based hate crimes in the United States.
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The mayor also insinuated that Smollett used "hate crimes legislation" as a means of promoting his own career.
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The FBI's latest hate-crime report showed that, in 2017, anti-Sikh hate crimes were on the rise.
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Hate crimes against Muslim-Americans have been on the rise since 2015, according to data from the FBI.
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Anti-Semitic hate crimes recently surged to some of their highest recorded levels in the last 40 years.
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Levin told HuffPo that reported hate crimes tend to spike in election years, but that 2016 was different.
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"The overarching message is that hate crimes will not be tolerated in Louisiana," he said after signing it.
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The FBI reports an overall increase in reported hate crimes of more than 4% from 2015 to 2016.
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His sentencing "sends a strong message" about the intolerance for hate crimes, Malcolm Graham told the Associated Press.
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Race-based hate crimes increased by more than 18%, and a majority of the victims were African-Americans.
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The FBI, in other words, may be undercounting the number of hate crimes by the hundreds of thousands.
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Lynch said she was aware of the concerns over the "spate" of recent alleged hate crimes and reports.
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Fields also faces 30 federal hate crimes charges, for which he could face the death penalty if convicted.
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The show, which will be titled Law & Order: Hate Crimes, was picked up for a 13-episode season.
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" Ifill said King's remarks were "particularly dangerous" at a time when violent hate crimes have reached "dangerous levels.
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In 2009, President Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
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Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said in a statement that hate crimes were "despicable violations" of America's values.
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After the ISIS-directed terror attacks in Paris in November, the mosque became a subject of hate crimes.
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The country has been battling hate crimes and violent attacks caused by the spread of misinformation on Whatsapp.
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In partnership with ProPublica, Google News Lab is launching a new tool to track hate crimes across America.
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Many hate crimes in the U.S. are not terrorist acts because they lack a violent or extremist component.
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The law enforcement source said the police hate crimes unit had rejected the incident as a bias crime.
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But overall, he said not all LGBTQ hate crimes are reported to police because of the victim's fears.
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But in the last year, those numbers slightly increased by 22016% to 213,221 hate crimes nationwide in 2124.
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The SPLC is an Alabama-based nonprofit organization that monitors hate crimes and hate speech across the country.
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An FBI report released last month found that hate crimes against Muslim Americans rose 28503 percent in 22019.
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Lynch condemned the findings, which included a 6 percent increase in all hate crimes nationwide since last year.
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Theresa May, Donald Trump, Brexit, an uptick of racism and hate crimes, rising inflation, and increasing property prices.
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Lenz also talked about the surge in reports of hate crimes and racially charged incidents after Trump's win.
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In 2017, of the 16,149 police departments that participate in hate crime reporting, only 2,040 reported hate crimes.
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She also supported bills to expand the state's hate crimes statue to include crimes against the LGBTQ community.
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" She added, "Hate crimes are about an identity-based bias, an immutable characteristic that a person cannot change.
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And Chicago had 77 reported hate crimes through early November, compared with 78 for the whole of 2018.
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"The crimes of violence are based upon the federal civil rights laws prohibiting hate crimes," the statement reads.
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She is a law professor at the University of Maryland and author of "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace" (2014).
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Indeed, since 9/11, there have been countless hate crimes against Sikh, Arab, Muslim and South Asian Americans.
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He also noted that the suspect in the August 2017 car attack had been charged with hate crimes.
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Political attacks and hate crimes against LGBTQ people are increasing right along with the divisive and hateful rhetoric.
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An FBI report released in November showed a 37 percent increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes in 85033.
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He said in addition to cutting down on these programs, Trump's rhetoric is contributing to the hate crimes.
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These groups do not live in fear of prosecution for hate crimes: They maintain Facebook pages and websites.
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The state is just one of five that does not have a hate crimes law on the books.
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WASHINGTON — Hate crimes against American Muslims have soared to their highest levels since the aftermath of the Sept.
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That was the most since the record 481 documented hate crimes against Muslims in 2001, when the Sept.
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In a few cases, people accused of hate crimes against Muslims and others have even cited Mr. Trump.
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The police cautioned, however, that the rise could be attributed in part to higher awareness of hate crimes.
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The city plans to open an office aimed at preventing hate crimes this summer, months ahead of schedule.
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It translates into our lives by fueling public discord, terrorist attacks, and hate crimes, thus undermining our democracies.
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Hate crimes are on the rise, neighborhoods are re-segregating, and systemic discrimination still infects our social structures.
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The 2015 data reveal that anti-LGBT hate crimes rose by about 5% but remained below 2013 levels.
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Comparatively, Maine, whose population is half the size of Arkansas, reported 38 hate crimes, according to the FBI.
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The FBI said in November that reported hate crimes had jumped 17% in 2017 from the year prior.
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The FBI reported a 37% spike in anti-Jewish hate crimes in 2017 compared to the previous year.
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Hate crimes have been increasing for the past four years, which includes the end of the Obama era.
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He said he was "deeply troubled" by hundreds of reports of possible hate crimes since the election. nyti.
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We need lawmakers to make sure that possible terrorists and people convicted of hate crimes cannot buy guns.
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We call them all "hate crimes," as if the same motivation lurks behind each of these disparate incidents.
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We're also seeing a rise in hate crimes, and more anti-Semitic crimes than we've had in years.
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The Council on American Islamic Relations reports a 44 percent increase in hate crimes in the last year.
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Ann Coulter took to Twitter after Smollett's arrest to declare there was no such thing as hate crimes.
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Other UK-based reports say there's been a sharp rise in reported hate crimes since the EU referendum.
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More than half the hate crimes reported in the city were anti-Semitic, the NYPD said in September.
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The killer, James A. Fields Jr., was sentenced to life in prison in a federal hate crimes case.
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Critics of Blue Lives Matter laws argue that the measures weaken the impact of the Hate Crimes Act.
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He cited laws against hate crimes and racketeering as well as others as adequate for fighting domestic terrorism.
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This means that the FBI is potentially undercounting hate crimes by a magnitude of more than 40 times.
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Since Donald Trump became president in January 2017, hate crimes have continued to rise in the United States.
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The remarks comes as numerous hate crimes have been reported by people of Asian descent around the world.
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In addition, the tendency to include them with other hate crimes leaves the extent of the problem unclear.
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In June, the FBI put out a report claiming that anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes are on the rise.
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Attacks have been traditionally underreported, but fighting the scourge in hate crimes begins with better data, experts say.
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NBC on Tuesday announced a 13-episode order for "Law & Order: Hate Crimes," from executive producer Dick Wolf.
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We do know that hate crimes in New York rose 6% overall in 2018, but 22% against Jews.
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Roof, who is white, also faces 33 federal charges including hate crimes, obstruction of religion and firearms offenses.
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The FBI has documented a 85033 percent increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes in its most recent data.
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Since 9/11, even Hindus and Sikhs have been targeted in hate crimes motivated by anti-Muslim bias.
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The mayor announced a broader initiative in which community groups would meet regularly to help prevent hate crimes.
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The volume of recent messages has been a sign for him that hate crimes are on the rise.
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Mr. Khan said hate crimes affect not just the person being attacked, but the person's community as well.
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Officials said the suspect, who is charged with hate crimes, also expressed anti-Semitic views in his journal.
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But amid a deeply troubling rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes, the pressure is on to punish instead.
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The police cautioned, however, that the increase could be attributed to increased awareness and reporting of hate crimes.
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"Hate crimes are grotesquely underreported," said Heidi Beirich, the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project.
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It is also deeply concerning that hate speech and various hate crimes since Trump's have occurred in schools.
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But even without the laws, such states can report hate crimes to the FBI, the Justice Department said.
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The NYPD said arrests related to hate crimes are also up compared to the same period last year.
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An FBI report released last month found that hate crimes against Muslim Americans rose 67 percent in 2015.
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Prosecutors instead rely on other charges — like hate crimes, in the case of Roof — to go after perpetrators.
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The media can skew our perspective on the prevalence of Hate Crimes targeted at one group versus another.
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Germany's Interior Ministry says that 93% of those anti-Semitic hate crimes were perpetrated by right-wing extremists.
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Hate crimes have occurred at places of business, houses of worship, on private property, and even elementary schools.
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Former student Jay Vainganker said the class was initially trying to solve unresolved hate crimes from the era.
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He also argues that the law should explicitly address people whose spouses are the targets of hate crimes.
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When hateful rhetoric encourages hate crimes, the preservation of safe spaces and cultural exchange is even more vital.
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The mayor announced yesterday that he would accelerate the opening of an office dedicated to preventing hate crimes.
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And in the US, studies show that in 2015 and 2016, hate crimes and attacks against Muslims skyrocketed.
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Klára Kalibová, a lawyer focusing on hate crimes in the Czech Republic, has herself experienced Facebook's failure firsthand.
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"People fake hate crimes in the last six months with some regularity," he said, without offering an example.
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What responsibility do politicians have when speaking about hate crimes, not just in Louisiana but also the president?
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And figures released by the FBI on Monday showed hate crimes against Muslims rose 67 percent last year.
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Behind all of this is a simple issue: What crimes qualify as hate crimes in the first place?
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Official FBI data for nationwide hate crimes in 2016 will not be released until November of this year.
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Of the 33,23 reported hate crimes reported nationwide in 221, only 22019 were found to be false, according to police and FBI data collected and analyzed by Brian Levin, a national expert in hate crimes and director of California State University, San Bernardino's Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.
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" Sessions, who first publicly proclaimed his intent to prosecute hate crimes against transgender individuals in a June speech, noted that "hate crimes are violent crimes" and that he had met "personally" with leaders of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division "to discuss a spate of murders around the country of transgender individuals.
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His death sparked national outcry and attention on hate crimes, and in 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which made it a federal crime to assault an individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity.
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As for hate crimes in particular, a study found that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender high school students living in neighborhoods with higher rates of LGBT assault hate crimes were significantly more likely to report having suicidal thoughts or suicide attempts than students in neighborhoods with lower rates of hate crime.
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The alleged shooter is facing hate crimes resulting in death, hate crimes involving an attempt to kill, use of a firearm to commit murder and in relation to a crime of violence, and use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, according to his indictment.
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"The tragic attack on the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue just two days ago serves as a stark reminder of the need to protect all of Americans against hate crimes," Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Monday at a law enforcement roundtable on improving the identification and reporting of hate crimes.
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According to the FBI, the number of hate crimes reported in 2017 was 7,175, up from 33,121 in 2016.
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In this case, the trail of digital evidence left no doubt as to whether the attacks were hate crimes.
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The majority of those killed in LGBTQ-related hate crimes were people of color, transgender, and gender-nonconforming people.
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Proponents of hate crime legislation say the specter of hate crimes motivated by characteristics like height is, well, absurd.
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As American Jews face rising hate crimes and domestic terrorism, progressives have grappled with a string of unsettling scandals.
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On Tuesday, Barr maintained he was confident that hate crimes enforcement under Trump is on par with previous administrations.
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And when they do, Coleman said he intends to refile the bill to amend the state hate crimes law.
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He signed the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, passed Lily Ledbetter, and created and supported initiatives on ending sexual violence.
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According to a report by the Department of Justice, hate crimes against Latinos have increased by 50% since 2016.
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The New York Police Department, for its part, has a new unit dealing with an upsurge in hate crimes.
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Under the current system, the FBI merely encourages local law enforcement to report hate crimes to a national database.
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Fields pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crimes last March, a plea that allowed him to avoid capital punishment.
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The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, (CAIR), called for a federal hate-crimes investigation into the incident.
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Rather, that would have to come federally under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
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The German Federal Ministry of the Interior registered 220 violent hate crimes against LGBT people in Germany in 221.
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Despite attempting to focus the hearing on hate crimes, Republicans quickly redirected it to concerns over anti-conservative bias.
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There's been a recent surge of hate crimes in the US and Britain, Markle's former and current home countries.
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At a moment when we have witnessed a significant spike in hate crimes, it has sympathized with white supremacists.
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In 2017, 58 percent of hate crimes motivated by religious bias targeted Jewish people, according to the FBI's database.
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The federal hate crimes statute has to involve activity that crosses state lines, which is another limitation, he noted.
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Because the national statistics are so insufficient, hate crimes present ideal conditions for the production of culture war media.
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This comes at a time when there has been a proliferation of caste-based and religious-based hate crimes.
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" When asked about the spike in hate crimes targeting Muslims, Sieting pivoted to Christians "being slaughtered by the thousands.
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Year after year, the vast majority of police departments across the country report zero hate crimes to the FBI.
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The Western District of Kentucky US Attorney's Office said it is investigating the shootings as possible federal hate crimes.
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Since the FBI's data is based on police reports, it misses hate crimes that aren't reported to the police.
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The New York City Police Department announced a 31 percent increase year-to-date in hate crimes on Wednesday.
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Similarly, posts about refugees from political parties other than the AfD did not appear to correlate with hate crimes.
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Dick Wolf is back at it with another Law and Order TV show called Law and Order: Hate Crimes.
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But as attorney general, he has promised to uphold that law and has made fighting hate crimes a priority.
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In September, The Huffington Post reported that 827 hate crimes in 13 large cities had been reported in 2017.
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Reported hate crimes against LGBT groups have risen in Britain and America even as gay marriage has been legalised.
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The app has about 100 unique request categories, including airplane noise, hate crimes, minimum wage issues, and water quality.
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It's not an easy time to be Romanian in this country, as evidence of various hate crimes can attest.
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He was sentenced to death after his conviction on 33 federal counts, including hate crimes and obstruction of religion.
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But at their core, the notion of a separate category of crimes known as "hate crimes" makes no sense.
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Bullying, campus hate crimes, and criminal investigations eventually caused Formspring, YikYak, and Lulu to shutter or change user policies.
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The uptick in hate crimes that has followed the election could be just a taste of things to come.
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Most of the reported hate crimes have been anti-Semitic in nature, followed by anti-Muslim crimes, Boyce said.
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Hate crimes require that (an intent to commit crime) be motivated by some animus, some hatred of other people.
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These fears were validated as women in the U.S. were reportedly targeted in hate crimes following Donald Trump's election.
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Muslim and Jewish institutions for years have added security measures to address the threat of violence and hate crimes.
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The incident involving Elsokary is just one in a recent rash of hate crimes in New York, authorities said.
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Because the state's hate crime law did not cover murder, the shooter couldn't be charged with state hate crimes.
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"What I'm hearing from Trump and the rise in hate crimes in this country is scaring me," Lee said.
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But I'm curious about your thoughts on a Muslim registry and all the hate crimes currently sweeping the nation.
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Some of the reported hate crimes have followed attacks by assailants inspired by militant groups such as Islamic State.
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One-fifth of hate crimes in America are because of sexual orientation; it is the second-most common type.
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The Justice Department's allegations coincide with an increase in hate crimes, particularly against Muslims, following a divisive presidential campaign.
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Hate crimes against gays are almost unheard of, says Alejandro Brito of Letra S, a gay-rights activist group.
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The FBI recently released data showing that hate crimes in the U.S. have increased for a third consecutive year.
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There were 28500,6900 victims of hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation in 2628, up from 28503,22019 victims in 2017.
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"At the same time, we must speak the truth: hate crimes are on the rise in America," she added.
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Twenty-five cities with populations of more than 150,000 people reported no hate crimes, including Plano and Laredo, Tex.
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By comparison, an earlier FBI study announced hate crimes in the United States increased by about 17% last year.
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Booker would also create an advisory group of leaders from communities hurt by hate crimes to advise his administration.
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Figures released by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on Tuesday showed courts were passing harsher sentences on hate crimes.
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Hate crimes remained about flat in 2017 in New York City, HuffPost reports, as other crime continued to fall.
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Cuomo also directed the state police hate crimes unit to share information and resources with the NYPD and FBI.
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And as president, Trump has stirred racism, as evidenced by the spike in racial and anti-Semitic hate crimes.
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Instead, the trial is meant to determine whether Roof receives the death penalty in the federal hate crimes trial.
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In addition to the zoning laws, Sessions said Wednesday that the DOJ is reinforcing its fight against hate crimes.
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Call for hate crime charges Cook County Commissioner Jesús "Chuy" García had called for hate crimes charges against Trybus.
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"We see sometimes with hate crimes the same individuals doing this type of activity over and over," Shea said.
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Fields was charged with 30 counts of federal hate crimes in June 85033, initially pleading not guilty in July.
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