Hate crimes declined slightly in 2018, the FBI said in a new report. But crimes targeting people — as opposed to property — surged dramatically, as did crimes against Latinos.
Hate crimes targeting people in 2018 surged to their highest levels in 16 years despite a slight overall dip in the number of hate crimes, the FBI said in a report released Tuesday.
According to the FBI, crimes against people grew to 4,571 last year, a year-to-year increase of just under 12%. Last year included the deadliest attack on Jews in modern U.S. history, when a gunman killed 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018. Before the shootings, the suspect posted online about immigrant “invaders” aided by Jewish-run refugee resettlement groups and called Jews the “enemy of white people.” He awaits trial in federal court.
Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, have blamed Trump’s rhetoric about immigrants and his embrace of anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and memes as part of what led to increases in 2017 in anti-Semitic incidents and those targeting Latinos and Muslims. In his own defense, the president has said he is the “least racist person there is anywhere in the world.” He has pointed to his own family, which includes a Jewish daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren, to fend off accusations of anti-Semitism.Criminologists and civil rights groups concede that hate crimes began to increase in 2015 under President Obama after six years of decline.
“There is nothing new about hate in America, but the combination of the ugliness in our public discourse and the ease with which this incendiary language can be spread has clearly had disastrous, sometimes fatal, consequences,” said Elbaum. “That is what we saw with the murders at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and the Chabad of Poway.” TheExperts said the FBI’s count probably misses many — possibly most — hate crimes that took place last year.
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