by Zach Dawes Jr | Nov 30, 2020 | News
More than 7,000 single-bias hate crime incidents involving more than 8,500 victims took place in 2019, with slightly more than one-fifth of these victims (20.1%) targeted due to religious bias on the part of the offenders, according to FBI data published Nov. 16. By...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jul 18, 2019 | News
A strong majority (70%) of U.S. adults believe hate speech and crime have increased in the past five years, according to Barna Group survey results published July 16. By comparison, 22% say they have stayed the same, 3% believe it has declined and the remaining 5% are...
by Christian McIvor | Mar 21, 2019 | Opinion
There were 91 anti-Muslim assaults in the U.S. reported to the FBI in 2015. This well surpassed the average number reported between 2002 and 2014, which was 45, and was the highest in a single year since 2001, when 93 were reported. In 2016, this number increased to...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 20, 2018 | News
Anti-Semitic hate crimes in the U.S. increased by 37 percent in 2017, according to the FBI’s annual Hate Crimes Statistics report released Nov. 13. There were 7,175 hate crime incidents reported by law enforcement to the FBI last year, 1,054 more than in 2016, with...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 30, 2018 | Opinion
News of reprehensible things still shocks and unsettles most of us, as it should. I worry, though, that we are careening toward a national normlessness and undergoing a public desensitization, which will result in our merely noting, not decrying and crying over, awful...
