In a record no one wanted to see broken, the FBI has reported that the number of hate crimes in the United States has reached its highest point in more than a decade, with the majority of reported attacks targeting Black and Asian Americans.
The finding comes from a newly released report focusing on 2020 and compiled from more than 15,000 different law enforcement agencies. From that data, the FBI identified 7,759 different hate crimes that took place in 2020. That number was 6% higher than the number of hate crimes reported in 2019 and hit a 12-year high since the agency began tracking hate crimes data in 2008.
Jan Wolfe of Reuters reported that “the FBI data showed the number of offenses targeting Blacks rose to 2,755 from 1,930 and incidents against Asians jumped to 274 from 158.”
