[Peace-discuss] FBI count of "hate crimes," 2016

Sat Nov 18 21:37:07 UTC 2017

Context: recent wave of fake robocalls in Alabama

SundayReview<https://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html#sundayreview> | NEWS ANALYSIS
When the Right Pushes Fake Jews

By JONATHAN WEISMAN<https://www.nytimes.com/by/jonathan-weisman>   NYT  NOV. 18, 2017

. . . The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently released its hate-crime statistics for 2016, and the numbers were plain. Of the 6,121 actions deemed crimes of hate and bigotry last year, 307 were perpetrated against Muslims, a 19 percent increase over 2015. Half the hate crimes, 1,739, were targeted at blacks, showing the potency of the nation’s original sin. Bias crimes against white people rose 17 percent, to 720 incidents, a sign of just how violent the nation’s polarization has become.

The 684 anti-Semitic hate crimes were more than the rest of the religiously motivated crimes of bias and bigotry combined.
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