FBI Report Shows 17 Percent Spike In Hate Crimes In 2017
LAPPL News Watch
November 16, 2018
Hate crimes across the United States spiked 17 percent in 2017 — marking a rise for the third straight year — with a 37 percent increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes, according to an FBI report released Tuesday.
There were 7,175 reported hate crimes last year, up from 6,121 in 2016. The FBI's annual hate crimes report defines hate crimes as those motivated by bias based on a person's race, religion or sexual orientation, among other categories.
There was a nearly 23 percent increase in religion-based hate crimes, with more than 900 reports of crimes targeting Jews and Jewish institutions.
EDITOR’S NOTE: When I came to America in 1936, in New York I saw big signs outside several buildings with apartments for rent which read: No Jews or Dogs Allowed.
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I remember stopping at a road house in Oklahoma and there was a sign that said NO DOGS OR INDIANS on the front door. Maybe they didn't have any Jews in Oklahoma then.
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