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Hate crimes against Latinos edged higher in major U.S. cities, according to new report
The Latin Times
The 10 largest cities in the U.S. registered an average increase of 22 percent in hate crimes reported in the last year, totaling 1,889 cases, according to a new investigation by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
Concretely, Los Angeles recorded last year the highest number of hate crimes in the U.S., with 609. 195 were against Blacks, 98 against the LGBTQI community, 91 against Jews and 88 against Latinos, Brian Levin, the center’s founding director, said in an interview with Noticias Telemundo.
Ask an Expert: Israel-Hamas war has led to a rapid rise in hate crimes in the U.S.
KCBS Radio
On KCBS Radio’s Ask an Expert segment, Brian Levin, founding director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, discusses the rise of hate crimes against Jewish and Arab Americans amid the war between Israel and Hamas. The troubling pattern comes at a time that these types of crimes were already trending upward, raising concerns about what could be to come.
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