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The most recent FBI releases and contemporaneous analyses for 2024 show that , and a substantial share of offenders recorded as unknown (about 17.8%) . At the same time, the FBI’s overall 2024 summary...
The FBI’s published 2023 hate‑crime dataset counts roughly 11,800–11,862 incidents nationally, with state‑level totals available via the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer and related summaries . Available sou...
The FBI’s publicly released hate-crime reports list annual totals for hate incidents and break out incidents by motivating bias (race, religion, etc.), but they Recent FBI tallies show roughly in the ...
The immediate prompt for Senator John Kennedy’s remarks about Representative Ilhan Omar was a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the rise in hate crimes that included testimony about violence ...
Maya M. Berry is the executive director of the Arab American Institute (AAI) and a leading Arab American civil‑rights policy advocate who has expanded AAI’s work on hate‑crime prevention, data equity ...
Two very different senators named Kennedy appear in the provided reporting, and each has registered notable clashes with colleagues or witnesses: John F. Kennedy’s Senate years included public interro...
Ilhan Omar publicly condemned Sen. John Kennedy’s remarks to Arab American Institute witness Maya Berry as symptomatic of entrenched Islamophobia among senior officials, framing the exchange as part o...
The FBI’s public hate-crime statistics record bias-motivated offenses by protected characteristics (race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, ethnicity) rather than by “far‑left...
The reviewed sources do not identify any incidents officially labeled as *lynchings* in the United States for 2022; federal hate-crime reporting from the FBI lists bias-motivated incidents but does no...