alarming increase in hate crimeses across the country, many targeting members of the asian-american, pacific islander and jewish communities. some cases these crimes are carried out by individuals we darkize as ethnically moat vited extremist to confront this threat we've taken an approach focussing on our traditional investigative efforts through our civil rights program and domestic terrorism hate crimes fusion cell we created about a year and a half ago, but also enhancing our law enforcement training, public outreach, and support to our state and local partners. our efforts to stem extremist violence are on top of our continued and extensive work to disrupt violent gangs, drug organizations, and human traffickers whose criminal acts devastate families and communities. for many of you, violent crime remains the most significant and most pernicious threat you face