Social media platforms may provide potential space for discourses that contain hate speech, and even worse, can act as a propagation mechanism for hate crimes. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program collects hate crime data and releases statistic report yearly. These statistics provide information in determining national hate crime trends. The statistics can also provide valuable holistic and strategic insight for law enforcement agencies or justify lawmakers for specific legislation. However, the reports are mostly released next year and lag behind many immediate needs. Recent research mainly focuses on hate speech detection in social media text or empirical studies on the impact of a confirmed crime. This paper proposes a framework that first utilizes text mining techniques to extract hate crime events from New York Times news, then uses the results to facilitate predicting American national-level and state-level hate crime trends. Experimental results show that our method can significantly enhance the prediction performance compared with time series or regression methods without event-related factors. Our framework broadens the methods of national-level and state-level hate crime trends prediction.

Police will use artificial intelligence to predict real-life hate crimes based on Twitter comments in the first trial of its kind in the UK. The AI system, which was developed by Cardiff University researchers, will be used to match hateful comments on the social media site to locations in the UK in an effort to prevent violence offline. Researchers proved that as the number of "hate tweets" – those deemed to be antagonistic in terms of race, ethnicity or religion – made from one location increased, so did the number of racially and religiously aggravated crimes, including violence, harassment and criminal damage. Police plan to use this technology from October 31 to track racist and hateful...

Jury selection for Majors' trial began Jan. 22. He had previously undergone a mental competency examination and been found competent to stand trial. But defense attorneys had argued in court papers that Majors showed signs of dementia and appeared to have problems with his long-term memory -- issues that they said interfered with their ability to prepare a defense.

The white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia exposed shocking violence resulting from a hate crime. ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism venture, reports that incidents of hate are common in the U.S. To better understand these crimes, ProPublica has partnered with Google's News Lab and data visualization studio Pitch Interactive to build the Documenting Hate News Index. The site collects media reports on hate crimes and bias incidents. Readers can search the incidents according to name, date, and topic. The site unveils a grim picture regarding the hate crimes.