Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
America, we did it. We f***ing did it. Unfortunately, the “it” that I'm talking about
is double the hate crimes in schools and colleges. With new data that was just released by the FBI showing that jump happened between 2018 and 2022. That also means that when you actually look into the data, one in every ten hate crimes in the United States took place in schools in 2022. Which makes them the third most common place for them to go down, only trailing homes and roadways. And it appears that the only time that we've seen a meaningful dip in hate crimes during the five-year period was because of COVID. Right, because the pandemic shut down schools for months, so It was just literally not possible to commit a hate crime at school because it was closed. Also, as far as more specifics, they found that Black Americans by far experienced the most hate crimes at schools. Right, by more than double of any other single group. Though the second most impacted group was Jews. And then while it's a mixed group, there were a ton of offenses based off of sexual orientation. But also — and this is a key thing when we talk about stuff like this — experts in this field widely believe that hate crimes are underreported in general. And in fact, over the past few years, some local police departments haven't even been reporting their hate crime data to the FBI.
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Produced by: Cory Ray, Philip DeFranco
Edited by: James Girardier, Maxwell Enright, Julie Goldberg, Christian Meeks
Art Department: William Crespo
Writing/Research: Lili Stenn, Philip DeFranco
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#Schools #Education #FBI
America, we did it. We f***ing did it. Unfortunately, the “it” that I'm talking about
is double the hate crimes in schools and colleges. With new data that was just released by the FBI showing that jump happened between 2018 and 2022. That also means that when you actually look into the data, one in every ten hate crimes in the United States took place in schools in 2022. Which makes them the third most common place for them to go down, only trailing homes and roadways. And it appears that the only time that we've seen a meaningful dip in hate crimes during the five-year period was because of COVID. Right, because the pandemic shut down schools for months, so It was just literally not possible to commit a hate crime at school because it was closed. Also, as far as more specifics, they found that Black Americans by far experienced the most hate crimes at schools. Right, by more than double of any other single group. Though the second most impacted group was Jews. And then while it's a mixed group, there were a ton of offenses based off of sexual orientation. But also — and this is a key thing when we talk about stuff like this — experts in this field widely believe that hate crimes are underreported in general. And in fact, over the past few years, some local police departments haven't even been reporting their hate crime data to the FBI.
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Produced by: Cory Ray, Philip DeFranco
Edited by: James Girardier, Maxwell Enright, Julie Goldberg, Christian Meeks
Art Department: William Crespo
Writing/Research: Lili Stenn, Philip DeFranco
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#Schools #Education #FBI
