Escalating hate crimes targeting Jews and other minority groups prompted passage of the federal Hate Crimes Statistics Act in 1990 and spurred 41 state legislatures , as of 1998 , to enact a patchwork of laws providing for police training about bias crimes , stiffer jail terms for perpetrators , and mandatory hate-crimes data collection by law enforcement . From 1979 to 1989 the ADL recorded more than 9,617 antisemitic incidents , including 6,400 cases of vandalism , bombings and attempted bombings , arsons and attempted arsons , and cemetery desecrations . The tally peaked at 2,066 in 1994 , but declined over the next three years , consistent with the downward trend in national crime statistics . According to 1996 Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics , of 8,759 hate crimes recorded that year , 13 percent were antisemitic . On April 1 , 2014 , Frazier Glenn Miller a former member of the Ku Klux Klan arrived to the Jewish center of Kansas City and murdered 3 people , two of them were on their way to the church . After his capture the suspect was heard saying " Heil Hitler "
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Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting
History of antisemitism in the United States