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Date: February 06, 2018 01:19PM
is considered an exacerbating and contributing circumstance under the law and is therefore deemed in applicable cases to be a bias-based and -motivated criminal act.
"Hate Crimes Rose About 5% in 2016, FBI Report Says: For the first time in over a decade, hate crimes have risen in America two years in a row"
By Christopher Mathias
"Huffington Post"
14 November 2017
"Hate crimes across the U.S. rose nearly 5% in 2016, according to the FBI’s annual tally, marking the first time in over 10 years that the country has experienced consecutive annual increases in crimes motivated by bias against race, religion, sexuality, national origin or disability.
"The FBI’s annual hate crimes report, published Monday, counted 6,121 hate crime incidents in America last year, up from 5,850 such incidents in 2015, a rise of 4.6%.
"About 58% of the hate crimes in 2016 were motivated by racial bias, with more than half of the race-based incidents targeting black Americans, the report said. Hate crimes targeting Latinos rose 15%, and hate crimes targeting Arabs and whites rose 38 percent and 17% respectively.
"21% of the hate crimes the FBI counted last year were motivated by religious bias. Of those religious-based incidents, 54% were anti-Jewish and 25% were anti-Muslim.
"There was a 3% increase in anti-Jewish incidents, and a nearly 20% increase in anti-Muslim incidents. (Last year, the number of anti-Muslim incidents rose 67%, increasing to levels not seen since the period directly after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.)
"Nearly 18% of the hate crimes last year were motivated by sexual-orientation bias, 62% of those targeting gay men. The FBI also counted 105 anti-transgender incidents last year, a rise of 44%.
"The much-anticipated FBI report is the most comprehensive hate crime data available for the divisive 2016 election year, and backs up earlier evidence of rising hate in America. The Southern Poverty Law Center documented a wave of hate incidents in the months following the November 2016 election.
“'We now have an unbroken streak of presidential election year increases [in hate crimes] going back to 1992, around the time national data collection commenced,' said Brian Levin, a professor at the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino."
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