According to one report, hate crimes in the United States increased around 2018

Hate-motivated crime in major cities in the United States experienced a sharp rise at the half-way point of 2018, suggesting that extremist political rhetoric could continue. In the fall of 2018, the number of hate crimes in cities like New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia has increased dramatically, said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. California, San Bernardino.

"In 2018, Levin told NBC News that peaks had been observed around elections in various US cities," Levin said.

Although the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism has not yet completed its annual report, one of the reasons Lever stated that [traduction] [19659007] In Los Angeles, for example, hate-motivated crime dropped 6.8% in the first half of 2018. But according to Los Angeles Police Department figures, hate crimes have globally increased by 12.5% ​​over the previous year, as they increased significantly during the second half of the year.

By the mid-2018 period, from October to December, hate crimes in the city grew by more than 31% over the same period of the previous year. The African-American, LGBTQ, Jewish and Latino communities seemed to be the most frequent targets.

"In examining this correlation, we think that, faced with very charged emotional events, such as a terrorist attack or an election, a difference," Levin told NBC News.

President Donald Trump organized dozens of television rallies during the mid-term campaign of 2018, during which he endorsed candidates, attacked Democrats and the press, and strongly focused on immigration, including a caravan of Central American migrants en route. "At this very moment, Democrats openly encourage millions of illegal aliens to break our laws, to violate our borders and to invade our country," said Trump at a rally in Fo Wayne, Indiana, just before polling day.

Hate-motivated crime tends to increase after emotionally charged events, such as those in mid-session in 2018, and then remain at that level for some time before ending, according to Wine.

Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015, hate crimes against Latinos have dropped dramatically, said Levin. Two weeks after the November 2016 elections, anti-Latin American hate crimes recorded the largest percentage increase in all groups, Levin said.

"Our center claims that the most common threat, the most prominent extremist threat now, is undeniably the far right and the white nationalists," Levin said.

According to a January report by the Anti-Defamation League, almost all extremists suspected of committing murder in 2018 had far-right links.

According to ADL, public officials must actively oppose bigotry: "We must continue to fight this threat, but now is the time to recognize that far-right extremism is a constant threat, omnipresent and threatening innocent lives in America ". [19659022] Doha Madani

Doha Madani is a reporter for NBC News.