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FBI: Hate crimes have skyrocketed under Trump

Violent right-wing extremists are more emboldened than ever by hateful rhetoric from Trump and Republicans.

Hate crimes are sharply on the rise in the Trump era, according to new data from the FBI. That makes it all the more worrisome that Trump and the Republican Party embraced an openly anti-Semitic message in a desperate last-minute bid to win midterm elections.

Trump’s hateful influence on America started with his high-profile, virulently racist 2015 campaign for president. Between 2015 and 2016, the FBI found a 6 percent increase in hate crimes reported to law enforcement agencies around the country.

But it’s gotten a lot worse since Trump took office. According to the FBI’s latest data, the number of hate crimes reported increased by another 17 percent from 2016 to 2017, rising from 6,093 to 8,437.

View the complete November 13 article by Oliver Willis on the ShareBlue.com website here.

Hate crimes rose 17 percent last year, according to new FBI data

A man places a sign of support outside the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minn., which was attacked in 2017. Credit: Aaron Lavinsky, AP

Reported hate crimes in America rose 17 percent last year, the third consecutive year that such crimes increased, according to newly released

FBI data that showed an even larger increase in anti-Semitic attacks.

Law enforcement agencies reported that 7,175 hate crimes occurred in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. That increase was fueled in part by more police departments reporting hate crime data to the FBI, but overall there is still a large number of departments that report no hate crimes to the federal database.

The sharp increase in hate crimes in 2017 came even as overall violent crime in America fell slightly, by 0.2 percent, after increases in 2015 and 2016.

View the complete November 13 article by Devlin Barrett on The Washington Post website here.