Hate crimes in the U.S. remained relatively high last year after a surge not seen in nearly two decades, according to a new FBI report that experts say is actually an undercount because thousands of police departments didn’t report their data
FILE - An FBI seal is seen on a wall on Aug. 10, 2022, in Omaha, Neb. Hate crimes in the U.S. remained relatively high last year after a surge not seen in nearly two decades, according to a new FBI report Monday, Dec. 12. But experts say is actually an undercount because thousands of police departments, including some of the country’s largest, didn’t report their data. WASHINGTON — — Hate crimes in the U.S.
The troubling trend continued this year with a series of brutal, high-profile hate crimes, including a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs and another that targeted Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo. In cities with more than 1 million people, meanwhile, hate crimes surged 39%, his research has found, with especially steep spikes in. Large cities are key to hate-crime data because they tend to be more diverse and have more ways for people to tell authorities about hate crimes, which are historically underreported, he said. But many were missing from this year's FBI report.
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