The FBI's hate crime report showed there were more than 7,000 hate crimes in 2021, but that's just a fraction of the true number.
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"The FBI's hate crime data release is so severely hampered by a decline in participating agencies," said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at the California State University San Bernardino. "It is simply not representative of the actual hate crime trend, which is up."
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