FBI Director Kash Patel has formally ended the bureau’s partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights organization that has tracked extremist and hate groups for decades.
In a post on X, Patel accused the SPLC of abandoning its mission and becoming “a partisan smear machine,” citing its “Hate Map” as a tool that “defamed mainstream Americans and even inspired violence.” He said the FBI will no longer rely on “agenda-driven intelligence from outside groups” and that “all ties with the SPLC have officially been terminated.”
The SPLC’s Hate Map catalogs organizations promoting racist, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, and other extremist ideologies. The group did not immediately comment on Patel’s announcement. The move coincides with Hate Crime Awareness Month, which began days earlier. In a release this week, the SPLC criticized the Trump administration for ending federal support for hate crime prevention programs.
The FBI also severed ties with the Anti-Defamation League the same week, further distancing the bureau from groups long central to federal civil rights enforcement.
According to FBI data, 11,679 hate crimes were reported in 2024, the second-highest total since records began in 1991. More than half were motivated by race, while others targeted religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
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