Let's get a grip. 

Like definitions of "sexual assault", definitions of "hate crimes" can mean anything from actual physical violence to more minor disagreeable incidents.

The numbers are small relative to the population, using percentages of increase make them seem more impressive.

If a crime is just a punk having fun getting "society" riled up, or e.g. getting revenge against some old person who complained about their loud music by scratching their car or by threatening their cat, it doesn't make headlines, but if the same punk does something minor based on the criteria identified as "hate crimes", then it becomes a social crisis.

Meanwhile concerns about real terrorist violence and real patriarchal domination of women get dismissed as a "phobia".