https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/h**e-crimes-rose-17-percent-last-year-according-to-new-fbi-data/2018/11/13/e0dcf13e-e754-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.f8ff12f00a26&wpisrc=al_news__alert-national&wpmk=1

H**e crimes in America rose 17 percent last year, the third consecutive year that such crimes increased, according to newly released FBI data.
Law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 h**e crimes occurred in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. That increase was fueled in part by more police departments reporting h**e crimes data to the FBI, but overall there is still a large number of departments that report no h**e crimes to the federal database.
[H**e crimes are soaring but many jurisdictions still don’t report any]
More than half of such crimes, about three out of every five, targeted a person’s race or ethnicity, while about one out of five targeted their religion.
Of the more than 7,000 incidents reported last year, 2,013 targeted b***k A******ns, while 938 targeted Jewish Americans. Incidents targeting people for their sexual orientation accounted for 1,130 h**e crimes, according to the FBI.
The FBI has urged local police departments to provide more complete information about h**e crimes in their jurisdictions.
Of the more than 7,000 h**e crime incidents in 2017, more than 4,000 were crimes against people, ranging from threats and intimidation to assault, to murder. More than 3,000 were crimes against property, ranging from vandalism to robbery to arson.
Acting Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker said the new figures are “a call to action — and we will heed that call. The Department of Justice’s top priority is to reduce violent crime in America, and h**e crimes are violent crimes. They are also despicable violations of our core values as Americans.”
Whitaker said he was “particularly troubled by the increase in anti-Semitic h**e crimes,” which are already the most common type of religious h**e crime in the United States.
Anti-Semitic h**e crimes rose 37 percent in 2017. Anti-Islamic h**e crimes declined 11 percent last year, with 273 such incidents, the data show.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/h**e-crimes-rose-17-percent-last-year-according-to-new-fbi-data/2018/11/13/e0dcf13e-e754-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.f8ff12f00a26&wpisrc=al_news__alert-national&wpmk=1

H**e crimes in America rose 17 percent last year, the third consecutive year that such crimes increased, according to newly released FBI data.
Law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 h**e crimes occurred in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. That increase was fueled in part by more police departments reporting h**e crimes data to the FBI, but overall there is still a large number of departments that report no h**e crimes to the federal database.
[H**e crimes are soaring but many jurisdictions still don’t report any]
More than half of such crimes, about three out of every five, targeted a person’s race or ethnicity, while about one out of five targeted their religion.
Of the more than 7,000 incidents reported last year, 2,013 targeted b***k A******ns, while 938 targeted Jewish Americans. Incidents targeting people for their sexual orientation accounted for 1,130 h**e crimes, according to the FBI.
The FBI has urged local police departments to provide more complete information about h**e crimes in their jurisdictions.
Of the more than 7,000 h**e crime incidents in 2017, more than 4,000 were crimes against people, ranging from threats and intimidation to assault, to murder. More than 3,000 were crimes against property, ranging from vandalism to robbery to arson.
Acting Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker said the new figures are “a call to action — and we will heed that call. The Department of Justice’s top priority is to reduce violent crime in America, and h**e crimes are violent crimes. They are also despicable violations of our core values as Americans.”
Whitaker said he was “particularly troubled by the increase in anti-Semitic h**e crimes,” which are already the most common type of religious h**e crime in the United States.
Anti-Semitic h**e crimes rose 37 percent in 2017. Anti-Islamic h**e crimes declined 11 percent last year, with 273 such incidents, the data show.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/h**e-crimes-rose-17-percent-last-year-according-to-new-fbi-data/2018/11/13/e0dcf13e-e754-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.f8ff12f00a26&wpisrc=al_news__alert-national&wpmk=1

H**e crimes in America rose 17 percent last year, the third consecutive year that such crimes increased, according to newly released FBI data.
Law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 h**e crimes occurred in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. That increase was fueled in part by more police departments reporting h**e crimes data to the FBI, but overall there is still a large number of departments that report no h**e crimes to the federal database.
[H**e crimes are soaring but many jurisdictions still don’t report any]
More than half of such crimes, about three out of every five, targeted a person’s race or ethnicity, while about one out of five targeted their religion.
Of the more than 7,000 incidents reported last year, 2,013 targeted b***k A******ns, while 938 targeted Jewish Americans. Incidents targeting people for their sexual orientation accounted for 1,130 h**e crimes, according to the FBI.
The FBI has urged local police departments to provide more complete information about h**e crimes in their jurisdictions.
Of the more than 7,000 h**e crime incidents in 2017, more than 4,000 were crimes against people, ranging from threats and intimidation to assault, to murder. More than 3,000 were crimes against property, ranging from vandalism to robbery to arson.
Acting Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker said the new figures are “a call to action — and we will heed that call. The Department of Justice’s top priority is to reduce violent crime in America, and h**e crimes are violent crimes. They are also despicable violations of our core values as Americans.”
Whitaker said he was “particularly troubled by the increase in anti-Semitic h**e crimes,” which are already the most common type of religious h**e crime in the United States.
Anti-Semitic h**e crimes rose 37 percent in 2017. Anti-Islamic h**e crimes declined 11 percent last year, with 273 such incidents, the data show.