FBI Reports Rise of Hate Crimes against Muslims Post 9/11

November 25, 2002

Source: The Anti-Defamation League

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HatCR_51/4197_51.asp

On November 25, 2002 The Anti-Defamation League issued a press release stating that "the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called for increased education and training for police agencies and bipartisan efforts to expand federal authority to investigate and prosecute hate crimes. The 2001 FBI hate crime data, released today and collected under the mandate of the 1990 Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA), documented 9,730 hate crimes reported by almost 12,000 police agencies across the country - an almost 21 percent increase in reported hate crimes over the 8,063 hate crimes reported by the 2000 FBI HCSA. The number of acts of vandalism and violence, directed at individuals and religious sites, is the largest total in the 11- year history of the collection effort."