Anti-Hispanic, anti-Semitic hate crimes rose in 2019, FBI data shows

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published 16 November 2020

Hate crimes rose again in the United States in 2019, data released by the FBI on Monday shows.

Overall, there were 7,314 reported hate crimes last year, including 527 incidents in which Hispanic people were targeted, a 9 percent increase from 2018. That marks the fourth straight year that anti-Hispanic hate crimes have risen.

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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.

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