{"id":1270989,"date":"2023-10-26T16:48:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T21:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1270989"},"modified":"2023-10-28T13:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T18:26:12","slug":"fbi-east-texas-named-hot-spot-for-hate-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1270989","title":{"rendered":"FBI: East Texas named hot spot for hate crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1271150\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/FBIDALTY-175x143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/FBIDALTY-175x143.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/FBIDALTY-200x164.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/FBIDALTY-427x350.jpg 427w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/FBIDALTY-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/FBIDALTY.jpg 1237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c FBI Dallas officials visited Tyler to discuss increasing reports of hate crimes in East Texas according to our news partners at KETK. On Wednesday, the FBI Dallas division officials and local authorities were at T.R Griffith Park in Tyler to discuss the impact hate crimes have on East Texas. According to the FBI, law enforcement agencies reported more than 11,000 incidents involving over 13,000 victims of hate crimes in 2022. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve definitely seen an uptick in hate crime reporting,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Chad Yarbrough, Special Agent in charge of the FBI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dallas Field. Anti-African American, anti-Jewish and anti-gay are the top three and with the tension in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a rise in threats.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yarbrough said hate crimes attack entire communities, not just one person. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153East Texas and Tyler in particular has always been a very hot spot when it comes to civil rights investigations,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Yarbrough. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was probably our busiest location throughout our area of responsibility outside of the Dallas-Metroplex.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Hate crimes have historically been underreported and some of it can be because people are too afraid to report it or distrust the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Two benches have been donated to the park by the FBI Dallas division hoping it will remind people to always report any crimes that involve hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c FBI Dallas officials visited Tyler to discuss increasing reports of hate crimes in East Texas according to our news partners at KETK. On Wednesday, the FBI Dallas division officials and local authorities were at T.R Griffith Park in Tyler to discuss the impact hate crimes have on East Texas. According to the FBI, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1270989\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FBI: East Texas named hot spot for hate crimes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1270994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/FBIDALTY-175x143.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FBI: East Texas named hot spot for hate crimes","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 11:24:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/FBIDALTY-175x143.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FBI: East Texas named hot spot for hate crimes","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1270989"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271152,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270989\/revisions\/1271152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1270994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}