Ken Schwencke

Confusion, Fear, Cynicism: Why People Don’t Report Hate Crimes

The Matthew Shepard Foundation has been trying to learn more about why so many victims of potential hate crimes — more than 50 percent annually according to the feds — don’t file complaints with the authorities.

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By Ken Schwencke
As police stand guard, armed anti-Muslim protestors, who did not want to give their names, stand across the street from a mosque during a demonstration in Richardson, Texas, on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

It is one of the most striking and curious statistics contained in a recent Bureau of Justice Statistics report on hate crimes in America: 54 percent of the roughly 250,000 people who said they were victimized in recent years chose not to file a formal complaint with the authorities. The Matthew Shepard Foundation, an advocacy organization based

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How One Major Internet Company Helps Serve Up Hate On The Web

Cloudflare, a prominent San Francisco outfit, provides services to neo-Nazi sites like The Daily Stormer, including giving them personal information on people who complain about their content.

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By Ken Schwencke
Dylann Roof, responsible for a politically motivated killing rampage in a black church is rarely defined as a terrorist by most media.

Since its launch in 2013, the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer has quickly become the go-to spot for racists on the internet. Women are whores, blacks are inferior and a shadowy Jewish cabal is organizing a genocide against white people. The site can count among its readers Dylann Roof, the white teenager who slaughtered nine African Americans in

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Growing White Supremacist Movement Reveling In Increased News Coverage

White supremacists have targeted college campuses, causing upset and gaining attention.

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By Ken Schwencke
Richard Spencer, the founder of the so-called “alt-right” movement, an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism. (AP Photo)

The Houston man laid out the details of his triumphant plan during a podcast last July: He told listeners that he had wanted to paste white nationalist fliers across the city's downtown, and, just as importantly, he had wanted the Free Press, a local news and arts website, to write about the fliers. "I want to trigger them into writing an

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