FYI Update: New hate crimes data for 2018 issued today by FBI…

The New York Times reports:

• “Personal attacks motivated by bias or prejudice reached a 16-year high in 2018, the FBI said Tuesday, with a significant upswing in violence against Latinos and a drop in assaults targeting Muslims and Arab-Americans.”

Hate-Crime Violence Hits 16-Year High, F.B.I. Reports

According to the FBI-issued report (below):

• “The majority of the reported hate crimes were motivated by race, ethnicity, or ancestry bias (59.6 percent). Additional biases included religion (18.7 percent), sexual orientation (16.7 percent), gender identity (2.2 percent), disability (2.1 percent), and gender (0.7 percent). The report, Hate Crime Statistics, 2018, includes hate crime information for last year. The data is broken down by location, offenders, bias types, and victims.”

2018