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    Hate crimes rose sharply in 2017, FBI report says

    by Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times Nov 13, 2018 4 minutes

    Hate crimes rose in the U.S. by more than 17 percent in 2017, the third straight year that such prejudice-motivated attacks have risen, according to a report the FBI released Tuesday.

    It is the biggest annual increase in reported hate crimes in more than a decade.

    The count, which drew on data submitted by more than 3,000 law enforcement agencies, documented a total of 7,175 hate crimes in 2017.

    The tally was 1,054 higher than the year before.

    The report is the first federal calculation of hate crimes that largely took place since Donald Trump became president. In his nearly 22 months in office, Trump has repeatedly

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