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August 1, 2019

July 31, 2019
Officially, what motivated Santino William Legan’s swift and devastating rampage through the Gilroy Garlic Festival is not known.
Authorities have said that they have not yet determined whether Legan was motivated by any extremist...

August 1, 2019

KPBS (San Diego)
July 31, 2019
A new report from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino shows hate crime is up in 30 cities across the country. Director Brian Levin joined KPBS Midday Edition co...

August 1, 2019

July 31, 2019
An article about authorities’ search to determine what motivated the shooter in Gilroy to attack the community’s annual Garlic Festival on July 28 included insight from a CSUSB professor of criminal justice and expert in hate and...

August 1, 2019

Aug. 1, 2019
David Yaghoubian, CSUSB professor of history, was interviewed for a segment on the continuing conflict between the U.S. and Iran over the multi-national agreement to regulate Iran’s nuclear program, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan...

July 31, 2019

July 30, 2019
The latest hate crime study released on July 30 by Cal State San Bernardino’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism indicate that such incidents in Los Angeles are up for the fifth year in a row and up 15% over last year.
Brian...

July 31, 2019

July 30, 2019
Anti-Muslim hate crimes in 10 of the largest U.S. cities declined last year for the second year in a row, according to a new report from California State University at San Bernardino.
There were a total of 53 reported anti-Muslim hate...

July 31, 2019

July 30, 2019
Hate crimes are up in major U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, a new study by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino shows. Lolita Lopez reported for the NBC4 News and interviewed Brian Levin...

July 31, 2019

Talking Points Memo
July 31, 2019
The United States is experiencing a steady rise in hate crimes going into the 2020 presidential election, according to a new report on extremism and violence in the U.S.
The report — released by the Center for the...

July 31, 2019

July 30, 2019
A new report shows that 2018 saw a national rise in hate crimes, and that almost all extremist homicides were carried out by the far right.
Hate crimes rose 9% to a decade high of 2,009 in 30 US cities surveyed for the Center for the...

July 31, 2019

July 30, 2019
A report by the Cal State San Bernardino Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism shows hate crimes are trending upward for the fifth consecutive year at a time when overall crime is down.
“Increasingly, we’re seeing that political...

July 31, 2019

July 31, 2019
Sunday's mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival is only the latest in the United States' expanding list of attacks by disgruntled men that leave death and destruction in their wake. Such scenes are becoming an increasingly common...

July 31, 2019

July 30, 2019
Brian Levin, director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, was interviewed for an article that reported authorities searching the Nevada home of Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter found extremist materials, citing a law...