China News Service, August 31. According to Reuters, on the 30th local time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that the number of hate crimes in the United States in 2020 was affected by the increase in attacks against African-American and Asian-American victims. The highest in more than ten years.
According to reports, according to data submitted to the FBI by more than 15,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States, 7,759 hate crimes occurred in 2020, the most since 2008 and an increase of 6% from 2019.
Statistics show that the number of hate crimes targeted by race has increased the most.
Among them, the number of crimes against African descent increased from 1930 to 2,755, and the number of attacks against Asians rose from 158 to 274.
“Preventing and responding to hate crimes and hate incidents is one of the top priorities of the Department of Justice,” US Attorney General Garland said in a statement. “The FBI’s 2020 hate crime statistics show that there is an urgent need for a comprehensive response to this problem. "