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Hate crimes jump for fourth straight year in largest U.S. cities, CSUSB study showsThe Washington PostMay 14, 2018, 2018
Hate crimes in the nation’s 10 largest cities increased by 12 percent last year, reaching the highest level in more than a decade, according to a report released Monday by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
The center analyzed hate-crime data reported by law enforcement agencies in 38 cities and counties across the country, including the 10 largest cities. Seven out of those 10 big cities saw an increase in hate crimes, with the largest jump in San Jose, Calif., where 44 hate crimes were reported; a 132 percent increase from 2016.
Hate crime rates in the country’s largest cities have increased for the past four years; all against the backdrop of an overall crime rate that has been declining since the early 1990s.
“Clearly these kinds of sustained increases over time in different jurisdictions says that we’ve entered a new place: We are an extraordinarily fragmented society across inter-group lines,” said Brian Levin, a professor of criminal justice and the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.
“If we look across the data spectrum, hate crimes are confirming an increase in bigotry that not only exists in society, but is frequently more mainstreamed and more publicly manifested,” he said.
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