The FBI keeps a record of hate crime incidents and reported 7,175 hate crimes in 2017, a rise of 17%, the third straight year that incidents of bias motivated attacks have grown. In 2016 there were 6,121 reported incidents. The increase especially affected black and Jewish Americans. Some of the rise is attributed to an increase in the number of police departments reporting these incidents. This is from a BBC report based on the FBI’s 2017 Hate Crime Statistics