WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. hate crimes were up slightly in 2008, with 7,783 incidents and 9,691 victims reported to authorities, the FBI said Monday.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Hate crimes based on sexual orientation increased 21 percent in Los Angeles County last year, the county's Human Relations Commission says.
MOSCOW, July 28 (UPI) -- Russian authorities are expressing concern over a dramatic increase in the number of hate crimes in Moscow this year.
LOS ANGELES, July 25 (UPI) -- Los Angeles recorded a 28 percent rise in hate crimes in 2007, largely resulting from hostilities between Latinos and blacks, officials said.
OTTAWA, June 10 (UPI) -- There were 892 cases of hate crimes reported in Canada in 2006, 60 percent of which were based on race or ethnicity, Statistics Canada reported.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A study by the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations found incidents of hate crimes in the Los Angeles area have increased by 26 percent. The report said the rise in reported hate crimes was bolstered by a 50 percent spike in racially motivated
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Just over half the bias crimes reported in 2004 were motivated by racial prejudice, the U.S. Justice Department reported Monday.
LONDON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Religious hate crimes, particularly against Muslims, have increased 600 percent since the London bombings on July 7, police figures indicate.
WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- FBI agents interviewing Iraqis in the United States found evidence of 36 "backlash" hate crimes, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday. He said more than 400 such crimes had been investigated by the FBI since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- State and local law enforcement agencies reported nearly 10,000 hate crimes in 2001, the FBI said Monday. Apparently motivated by the Sept. 11, 2001, terror att
