The FBI has released its Hate Crime Statistics for 2016. The information shows that the number of loathe crimes has risen for the instant twelvemonth running. As inward previous years the highest number of loathe crimes are race based crimes, amongst to a greater extent than than one-half of those crimes aimed at African-Americans. Alarmingly the number of religious based crimes against Muslims increased past times xix pct inward but i year.
The Anti-Defamation League has updated its Hate Crime Map amongst the FBI's 2016 data. If y'all pick out the 'Hate Crime Data' tab on the map y'all tin terminate persuasion which cities (with a population over 100,000) convey reported loathe crimes for whatever twelvemonth since 2004. The blueish dots betoken those cities which convey reported loathe crimes for the selected year.
Earlier this twelvemonth the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) equally good reported a huge increment inward loathe crimes against Muslims inward the United States. They reported that the number of anti-Muslim loathe groups inward America grew from 34 to 101.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center the overall rising of loathe groups is a at i time number of the 'incendiary rhetoric' used past times Donald Trump. In its annual census of extremist groups the SPLC claims that "Trump’s run for purpose electrified the radical right, which saw inward him a champion of the thought that America is fundamentally a white man’s country".
The SPLC's interactive Hate Map tracks the growing number of loathe groups operating inward the United States. The map uses colored markers to betoken the category of each loathe grouping shown on the map. If y'all pick out a mark on the map y'all tin terminate click-through to acquire to a greater extent than well-nigh what this type of loathe grouping believes too how they operate.
