Statistics Show Spike In Hate Crimes Across US
Rashid Alam, a 18-year-old Muslim pauses next to a photo taken following his attack, at a news conference Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at the Council on American-Islamic Relations offices in Anaheim, Calif. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)
Hate crimes spiked in four major American cities in the first months of 2017, with the percentage year-over-year change in one of them, Chicago, reaching a staggering 160 percent, according to the nonpartisan Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.
