US Justice Department Launches Hate Crime Website

Earlier this week, the American Department of Justice launched a new comprehensive hate crimes website.

According to the press release, it is :

"a centralized portal for the Department’s hate crimes resources for law enforcement, media, researchers, victims, advocacy groups, and other related organizations and individuals. The resources include training materials, technical assistance, videos, research reports, statistics, and other helpful information from all of the Department components working on hate crimes. In recent years, the Department has ramped up its hate crimes prosecution program and increased training of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers to ensure that hate crimes are identified and prosecuted to the fullest extent possible."

Other sources for tracking the rise of hate crimes in the United States include:

• Southern Poverty Law Center : "Our lawsuits have toppled institutional racism and stamped out remnants of Jim Crow segregation; destroyed some of the nation’s most violent white supremacist groups; and protected the civil rights of children, women, the disabled, immigrants and migrant workers, the LGBT community, prisoners, and many others who faced discrimination, abuse or exploitation. Our Intelligence Project is internationally known for tracking and exposing the activities of hate groups and other domestic extremists."
• Anti-Defamation League : "Founded in 1913, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is our nation’s premier civil rights/human relations organization. We have a distinguished history of reminding the world just how tenuous civil rights are and we mobilize people to engage in reasonable discourse as together we find solutions to serve our diverse society."
• ProPublica Documenting Hate: this is a partnership of dozens of media organizations to gather reliable, verified data on hate crimes

For the sake of comparison, the most recent Statistics Canada report on hate crimes in this country was published in April 2018.