Are hate crimes after the 2016 election up as sharply as news reports suggest? For many reasons, the question isn't easy to answer, but the Documenting Hate project is trying through an ongoing, crowdsourcing initiative this year. The project is led by ProPublica in partnership with dozens of media outlets, including WNYC.

ProPublica's Rachel Glickhouse said the project had collected more than 2,500 reports of hate and bias incidents across the U.S. through June. But she told WNYC host Sean Carlson that it's challenging to determine the true number because of dozens of federal agencies fail to report data to the FBI's national hate crime database.

Still, certain trends are emerging in terms of where incidents take place (public transportation) and what's said.

"People are told to go back to their country," she said. "Generally, these are people of color. They might be immigrants but they might not be. We've had numerous partners report on this phenomenon."

Glickhouse said the stories of bias incidents are emerging from "everywhere" and that New York is no exception.

"It's in liberal cities, it's in conservative cities," she said. "It's in urban areas, it's in rural areas. There's really no place that isn't touched by this."

If you have an incident to report, you can add to the project by filling out the form here.