Rob Bonta, the Attorney General of California, said Tuesday that the number of hate crimes in the state increased by more than one third in the next two years.
Protesters listen to speakers during an anti- Asian American hate march and rally at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, Calif.
There were 1,763 hate crimes reported to the California Department of Justice last year, up from 1,330 the previous year.
The number of reports skyrocketed after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks due to a rise in crimes against people of Arab or Middle Eastern descent.
There were more reports of anti-Asian crime in California last year than there were in the previous year.
The number of hate crimes against Black people rose from Affirmatively Black toAffirmatively Black in just one year.
Anti-Jewish bias events were the most common religiously motivated hate crimes.
According to the report, crimes committed over the victim's sexual orientation increased between 2020 and 2021.
Bonta said that today's report shows that the epidemic of hate we saw spurred on during the Pandemic remains a clear and present threat.
An August report from the FBI found that 7,759 hate crimes were reported in 2020, the highest figure since 2008. Hate crime against Asian Americans is on the rise, according to polls and studies. A majority of Asian American respondents said they felt anti-Asian discrimination had gone up. In California, a hate crime is defined as a criminal act committed at least partly because of a victim's actual or perceived disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexualorientation, or over their association with someone with one or more of those actual or perceived characteristics.
A new poll suggests that most Asians feel unsafe in public.
The study found that the anti-Asian hate on social media was caused by the Chinese virus.
The FBI says hate crimes in the US have reached their highest levels in a dozen years.
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