New website created to collect hate crime, bias data in Maryland

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office created a new website to report hate crimes and bias incidents.

Authorities said the online portal is intended to help track hate crimes, identify trends with hate crimes and help officials create recommendations to address such incidents in Maryland. Users can anonymously report incidences of hate and\or bias.

“For too long, hate crimes have been underreported and underestimated, but victims don’t have to suffer in silence. I am listening,” Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown said in a statement. “This new portal is a safe place to speak up. It will help us all understand how widespread these incidents are, so we can better address them.”

The attorney general’s office said hate incidents are steadily increasing in Maryland as there were 465 incidences reported in 2022 compared to 388 in 2021.

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