by Michael D. Shear, Alan Rappeport, Eric Lichtblau, and Maggie Haberman

November 14, 2016

 

Hate crimes surge, led by attacks on Muslims.

The F.B.I. reported Monday that attacks against American Muslims rose last year, driving an increase of about 7 percent in hate crimes against all victims.

The data, the most comprehensive look at threat crimes nationwide, expanded on previous findings by researchers and outside monitors, who have noted an alarming rise in some types of hate crimes tied to the intense vitriol of the presidential campaign and the aftermath of terror attacks at home and abroad since 2015.

Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/us/politics/donald-trump-transition.html