Reports of hate crimes have spiked by nearly 17% during President Trump’s first year in office, the FBI has revealed.
The new data shows 7,175 hate crimes were reported to the federal agency in 2017, compared to 6,121 such crimes reported in 2016.
The majority of reported hate crimes in 2017 included bias against someone’s race, ethnicity or ancestry, with anti-Semitic crimes alone raising 37%.