Hate Crime in California - Attorney General of California
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The Role of the Criminal Justice Statistics Center
is to:
Collect, analyze, and report statistical data that provide valid measures of crime and the criminal justice process.
Examine these data on an ongoing basis to better describe crime and the criminal justice system.
Promote the responsible presentation and use of crime statistics.
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Rob Bonta, Attorney General
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Executive Summary Hate Crime in California
2021
Hate Crime in California 2021 presents statistics on hate crimes reported by California law enforcement agencies that occurred during 2021 with prior years included for context. These statistics include the reported number of hate crime events1, hate crime offenses2, victims of hate crimes, and suspects of hate crimes. This report also provides statistics reported by district and elected city attorneys on the number of hate crime cases referred to prosecutors, the number of cases filed in court, and the disposition of those cases. For the purposes of this report, a hate crime refers to a criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity. The total number of reported hate crime events, offenses, victims, and suspects increased in 2021. The following statements highlight the major trends in Hate Crime in California for 2021.
Crime Data
The amount of reported hate crime events has gone up and down over the last decade. In the last 10 years, reported hate crime events have increased by 89.6 percent (Table 11). The lowest year for reported hate crime events was 2014 with 758 events (Table 11). Reported hate crime events increased 32.6 percent from 1,330 in 2020 to 1,763 in 2021. (Table 11) Reported hate crime offenses increased 42.1 percent from 1,563 in 2020 to 2,221 in 2021. (Table 15) The number of victims of reported hate crimes increased 41.9 percent from 1,536 in 2020 to 2,180 in 2021. (Table 15) The number of suspects of reported hate crimes increased 41.2 percent from 1,171 in 2020 to 1,654 in 2021. (Table 15)
1 The term event is defined as an occurrence where a hate crime is involved. (In this report, the information about the event is a crime report or source document that meets the criteria for a hate crime.) There may be one or more suspects involved, one or more victims targeted, and one or more offenses involved for each event.
2 The term offense is defined as criminal acts that are recorded as follows: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, simple assault, fondling, intimidation, and destruction/vandalism, false pretenses, and weapons violations as defined in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) and the national Hate Crimes Statistics Report.
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