By: Willa Frej 07/06/2016 Police in London have made 75 percent more arrests for hate crimes since theBritain voted to leave the European Union. Racially motivated incidents have surged in the city since the June 24 referendum, with the number of recorded hate crimes rising 50 percent, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, London’s Commissioner of Police, said Wednesday. Hogan-Howe confirmed the
JTA Jun 26, 2016 Pew Research Center’s study reported more than half of the anti-religious hate crimes in the U.S. were in part motivated by anti-Jewish bias. JTA — A new study has found that harassment of Jews worldwide continued to increase in 2014, the most recent year studied, even as government restrictions on religion and social
30 JUN 2016 BY RICHARD WHEATSTONE reports to the National Police Chiefs' Council have risen significantly as its chair warns migrants are reporting verbal abuse, anti-migrant leafleting and verbal assaults An explosion of racist and xenophobic abuse on the streets of Britain since last week's Brexit vote has seen hate crime reports soar by more
By: BENOIT FAUCON and ALEXIS FLYNN - Updated June 29, 2016 LONDON—Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday that the U.K. was stepping up its response to hate crimes and called on both sides of the referendum debate to “utterly condemn them”—amid a recent rise in reported hate-crime incidents after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union. Addressing
June 29, 2016 WEST HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) — A popular YouTube personality was charged Wednesday with making a false report after alleging he was assaulted in a hate crime outside a club in West Hollywood. Calum McSwiggan, 26, of London, faces one misdemeanor count of false report to a peace officer that a felony was committed
By RAPHAEL SATTER and PHILIPPA LAW Jun. 27, 2016 8:33 PM EDT LONDON (AP) — An Eastern European family in Rugby finds dog excrement shoved through its mailbox. A Londoner nearly gets into a fight over drunken slurs shouted on a crowded subway car. A Polish teenager in Gloucestershire is taunted with threats of deportation
by Alan Yuhas and Nicky Woolf June 26, 2016 Multiple people were stabbed and beaten in a brutal clash between white nationalists and counter-protesters just outside the California capitol building in Sacramento on Sunday. Ten people were taken to hospitals with injuries, two with “critical trauma stab wounds”, the fire department said, after what it called
by SPLC Hatewatch Staff June 16, 2016 Jo Cox, a member of the Labour Party in the British Parliament, died Thursday after an attack by a lone man who shot and stabbed her in West Yorkshire following a regular public meeting she held with constituents. Her alleged killer is Thomas Mair, 52. According to eyewitness
By Jason Leopold June 13, 2016 Violent right-wing extremist groups are on the rise in the United States. According to a recent report by Mark Potok, senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the number of hate groups representing far-right ideologies increased from 784 to 892 between 2014 and 2015. Potok attributes the
By John Bat June 13, 2016 In response to the largest mass shooting in US history at an Orlando gay club, which killed 49 and injured more than 50, Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey said on Monday that he will introduce legislation targeting perpetrators of hate crimes. Casey's Hate Crime Prevention Act would ban the