“People who have hate in their hearts are feeling emboldened to act out more and more and it’s really troubling,” Libit said. “Clearly, the significant rise we’ve seen in reported hate crimes and the rise we see in unreported hate crimes merits all of us looking again at all of our hate crime laws and seeing what more we can do. We ought to take another look across the board to see what we can do to help deter, help prevent and help punish.”