Community Resilience Toolkit
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Everyone in the United States deserves to live in inclusive communities where they are safe and not targeted for who they are. Yet many across the country have and continue to experience the scourge of hate-motivated incidents and crimes. This resource collects information sourced from individuals, communities, and local governments who have experienced and responded to hate crimes.
Hate crimes and incidents are not a new phenomenon for our nation. They have occurred throughout our history. Increases in hate crimes have roughly paralleled increases in divisive public rhetoric, changes in demographics, and incidents of mass violence. The most recent data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has shown the highest number of reported hate crimes on record, even with thousands of law enforcement agencies in the country failing to participate in the FBI’s data collection effort and other agencies failing to report credible data. In 2023, for example, some 60 agencies serving populations of 100,000 or more affirmatively reported that they had zero (0) hate crimes. The repeated record-breaking number of hate crimes reported in the past several years is alarming, but it is even more devastating when the human impact is considered. Research has shown that hate crimes have a unique impact on the victim and the victim’s community. Hate crimes “hurt more” than non-bias motivated crimes.