Hate crimes of all kinds are on the rise and Tennessee is no exception.

According the FBI the number of hate crime incidents reported to them in 2017 was up about 17 percent from the year before.

A TBI report from April showed us Tennessee is following the national trend, seeing an uptick in reported hate crimes.

In Tennessee, 199 hate crimes with a known bias and 133 with an unknown bias were reported in 2017.

Out of the 133, 49 of those unknown bias hate crimes were reported in Carter County in the Tri-Cities area.

The second highest number came from the Knoxville – East Tennessee region