Ken Schwencke

Confusion, Fear, Cynicism: Why People Don’t Report Hate Crimes

The Matthew Shepard Foundation has been trying to learn more about why so many victims of potential hate crimes — more than 50 percent annually according to the feds — don’t file complaints with the authorities.

Confusion, Fear, Cynicism: Why People Don’t Report Hate Crimes

It is one of the most striking and curious statistics contained in a recent Bureau of Justice Statistics report on hate crimes in America: 54 percent of the roughly 250,000 people who said they were victimized in recent years chose not to file a formal complaint with the authorities. The Matthew Shepard Foundation, an advocacy organization based

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Despite Legal Requirement, Over 100 Federal Agencies Don’t Report Hate Crimes

The gaps in data damage efforts to understand the nature and scope of violence driven by racial and religious hatred.

Despite Legal Requirement, Over 100 Federal Agencies Don’t Report Hate Crimes

In violation of a longstanding legal mandate, scores of federal law enforcement agencies are failing to submit statistics to the FBI's national hate crimes database, ProPublica has learned. The lack of participation by federal law enforcement represents a significant and largely unknown flaw in the database, which is supposed to be the nation's

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How One Major Internet Company Helps Serve Up Hate On The Web

Cloudflare, a prominent San Francisco outfit, provides services to neo-Nazi sites like The Daily Stormer, including giving them personal information on people who complain about their content.

How One Major Internet Company Helps Serve Up Hate On The Web

Since its launch in 2013, the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer has quickly become the go-to spot for racists on the internet. Women are whores, blacks are inferior and a shadowy Jewish cabal is organizing a genocide against white people. The site can count among its readers Dylann Roof, the white teenager who slaughtered nine African Americans in

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Growing White Supremacist Movement Reveling In Increased News Coverage

White supremacists have targeted college campuses, causing upset and gaining attention.

Growing White Supremacist Movement Reveling In Increased News Coverage

The Houston man laid out the details of his triumphant plan during a podcast last July: He told listeners that he had wanted to paste white nationalist fliers across the city's downtown, and, just as importantly, he had wanted the Free Press, a local news and arts website, to write about the fliers. "I want to trigger them into writing an

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In An Ugly Election Result, Hate Surges Online

Social media, along with heavily-trafficked forums like Reddit and the troll-haven 4chan, «are much more significant» tools for the rising white supremacist movement than avowedly racist web outposts like Daily Stormer and its ilk.

In An Ugly Election Result, Hate Surges Online

Over the past month, more than 564,000 unique visitors have spent time on the Daily Stormer, a website that takes its name from a Hitler-era German tabloid, "Der Stürmer." The site bills itself as "America's #1 Most Trusted Republican News Source" and features headlines like "Jew Billionaires Meet to Overthrow Trump Government," "Faggots and Jews

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Hate Crimes Are Up — But the Government Isn’t Keeping Good Track Of Them

There is considerable anxiety about the potential for violence after a bitter national election. The data kept on hate crimes won’t reassure anyone.

Hate Crimes Are Up — But the Government Isn’t Keeping Good Track Of Them

In 2015, the authorities in California documented 837 hate-crime incidents, charting a surge in offenses motivated by religious intolerance toward Muslims and Jews, while crimes against Latinos grew by 35 percent. Last week, shortly after

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