A new report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has stated that hate crimes against Muslims, LGBT and Blacks are on the rise having been on the low for two decades.
According to the report that was released on Monday, hate crimes against Muslims were up by 67% from 2015 to 2016 while crimes against religious groups were up by 23 percent since 2014. Hate incidents against anti-black and LGBT were also up as well.
In 2015, there were 257 anti-Muslim hate crimes, compared to 154 the year before as regards the FBI report, based on the data submitted by 14,997 law enforcement agencies across the nation.
This was the first year that anti-Arab hate crime was recorded by the FBI as there were 37 incidents and 48 victims in addition to the first year that crimes against Mormons, Sikhs, Buddhists, Eastern-Orthodox and Jehovah's witnesses were recorded.
No comments:
Post a Comment