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State Reports Large Rise in Hate Crime Incidents, Pasadena Reports Minimal Increase

Published on Friday, July 8, 2022 | 6:05 am
 

On the day that California Attorney General Rob Bonta released the 2021 Hate Crime in California Report indicating that such crimes in the state have increased by over 30 percent from 2020 to 2021, city police said that here in Pasadena there was a modest increase in hate crimes during the same time period. 

A total of six hate crime incidents were reported in Pasadena during 2021, up from five in 2020, according to figures provided by the Pasadena Police Department. 

The department also said that from January to May, 2022, two hate crime incidents were reported. Police said one case involved physical injury – lacerations, abrasions, complaint of pain, swelling – to the victims. 

There have been no hate crime arrests this year, although a Department spokesperson said detectives were actively following up on leads from the assault hate crime case.

In regard to the prejudices [which allegedly motivated each 2021 incident], there were four incidents involving race/ethnicity and two involving sexual orientation,” Lt. Marcia Taglioretti said. 

Taglioretti added that the Department views all incidents of hate crimes seriously. 

“They will not be tolerated and they will be thoroughly investigated,” Taglioretti said. “It is department policy to safeguard the rights of all individuals irrespective of their disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and/or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.” 

Taglioretti also stressed that it is the Police Department’s policy to employ “reasonably available resources and vigorous law enforcement action” to identify and arrest hate crime perpetrators.

Bonta released California’s hate crime statistics in late June. The numbers showed increases in the number of incidents, events, offenses, as well as in the number of victims and suspects of reported hate crimes in 2021. 

Bonta called the phenomenon “an epidemic of hate” while addressing a press conference in Sacramento, reported KQED

“In fact, a level we haven’t seen in California since the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,” said Bonta.

Bonta’s report showed the number of reported hate crime events increased 32.6  percent from 1,330 in 2020 to 1,763 in 2021.

Anti-Asian bias events reportedly increased a staggering 177.5% from 89 in 2020 to 247 in 2021, per the report. 

Among hate crime events involving a religious bias, anti-Jewish bias events were the most prevalent and increased 32.2% from 115 in 2020 to 152 in in 2021. 

The statistics also showed that hate crime events motivated by a sexual orientation bias increased 47.8% from 205 in 2020 to 303 in 2021 in the state.

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