U.S. hate crimes are up, again in 2022 – into a fourth straight year according to new data from the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism (CSHE) at California State University, San Bernardino.
The latest 4.7% rise in hate crime was in the first half of 2022. Other recent findings include rising violence, historic elongated hate crime spikes, mass homicides, shifts in group targeting – and numerous broken records back to 1991.
The new 2022 data is from a CSHE sample of 15 major U.S. cities [below right] and follows double digit percentage increases in each of the last two years. If 2022 ends up, it would be only the third time since national record keeping began where hate crimes rose for four straight years. Blacks, Jews, Gays and Latinos were the most frequent targets in the first half of 2022.
