The number of US hate crimes increased again in 2021, continuing an alarming rise, according to FBI data released on Monday. A jump of nearly 12% reverses previous, incomplete FBI information that appeared to show a drop but lacked data from some of the nation’s largest cities, including New York and Los Angeles. The hate crime statistics now include those cities along with data from other large law enforcement departments, and the total is the highest it has been in decades, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino, Brian Levin,...