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Political polarization ‘has also bled over into an increase in hate crimes,’ CSUSB professor says
WFTS (Tampa, Fla.)/Scripps MediaNov. 27, 2018 Brian Levin, director of the Cal State San Bernardino Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, comments on the U.S. Senate race in Mississippi, where one candidate made a controversial comment regarding public hangings. On Monday, the day before the election, nooses were hung outside the state capitol, one with a sign that read, “We’re hanging nooses to remind people that times haven’t changed.” “I think the controversy over the Senate race in Mississippi is a microcosm over the debates we’re having about race nationally,” Levin said. Also this week, the trial started for the man accused of killing a woman and hurting dozens of others after he rammed his car into a crowd of people protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.  “I think this political polarization has also bled over into an increase in hate crimes,” says Levin. He also discussed the increase in hate crime and said the trend could continue. Read the complete article at “Expert: Hate crimes have increased for third year in a row.”
CSUSB professor says hate crime reporting system doesn’t respond adequately to such incidentsPress-Republican (Plattsburgh, N.Y.)/Raycom News NetworkNov. 27, 2018 Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, commented on the FBI’s latest hate crime report, which showed there were 1,000 more hate crimes in 2017 than in 2016. It’s a 17-percent increase, and, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the third-worst year on record. Levin told the SPLC that “the FBI data confirms the reality we all know: hate is increasing in America.” “The FBI data, in what is missing from it, also demonstrates the hate crime reporting system we have in place is failing to respond adequately to hate crime, and thus inform fully the policy remedies we must make to improve our response to hate,” he added. Read the complete article at “There were 1,000 more hate crimes in 2017 than 2016, FBI’s latest statistics reveal.”
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