increasing anti-LGBTQ violencelast week in a statement marking the 25th anniversary of the killing of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming who was brutally attacked and later died of his injuries in one of the most notorious anti-gay hate crimes in U.S. ...
"The prevalence of hate crimes has increased," said Brian Griffith, FBI deputy assistant director in an interview. "It continues to be a concern throughout the country. Race, ethnicity and ancestry continue to be the largest targeted categories." Griffith added that the largest subset of those ...
FBI reports hate crimesReports on the statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding hate crimes committed in the United States.Malcolm, TeresaNational Catholic Reporter
BALTIMORE (WJZ) --FBI Baltimore announced Wednesday it is launching an awareness campaign to bring attention to hate crimes, which are historically underreported.The awareness campaign will consist of digital billboards, flyers, and ads on buses, social media and radio throughout Maryland and Delawa...
Overall in the United States, hate crimes rose by 6%, according to the FBI. The agency considers criminal incidents to be hate crimes if they are "motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity." ...
"We've seen an increase of hate crimes in Europe and so that makes us kind of have a concern as to what is going to happen here," she said. "The Sikhs suffered with the shooting in Wisconsin in 2012, so we're always worried that something like that may happen here so we want to...
Reporting hate crime data to the UCR Program allows the public, researchers, community leaders, and local government to raise awareness of the issue and gain a more accurate picture of hate crimes, said the FBI on its website.
crease in incidents FBI: Hate crimes against Middle Easterners surge; Backlash: Report finds 1,600 percent increase in incidentsFBI: Hate crimes against Middle Easterners surge; Backlash: Report finds 1,600 percent increase in incidentsASSOCIATED PRESS...
agunman shot to death 11 people inside a Pittsburgh synagogue. The suspect in that shooting, Robert Bowers, 46, expressed hatred of Jews during the rampage and later told police that “all these Jews need to die,” authorities said. Bowers was charged with federal hate crimes and...
The FBI report does not break out the number of noose incidents, but the two most frequent hate crimes in 2006 were property damage or vandalism (2,911 offenses), and intimidation (2,046 offenses). There were 860 aggravated assaults and 1,447 simple assaults, three murders, six rapes and...