Hate crimes in the US rose to a dozen of the country’s largest cities in 2021, and Asian Americans were among those most frequently targeted. coronavirus Crimes against them skyrocketed by 339 percent as the pandemic raged.
Data from metropolitan police departments in 14 cities found that hate crimes increased by 46 percent from 2020 to 2021.
The disturbing findings come from data that has been collected by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism as part of an as-yet-unpublished study. california state University.
Analysis of the data shows that Washington, D.C. saw the highest level of hate crimes per 100,000 members of the population, with 21.6 reported hate crimes, followed by shifts with 15.5 and San Francisco with 12.8.
Hate crimes in the US increased in 2021 in a dozen of the nation’s largest cities. Analysis of the data shows that Washington DC saw the highest level of hate crimes per 100,000 population, with 21.6 hate crimes recorded
The country’s second largest city, Los Angeles, comes in with 15.5 crimes per 100,000 population.
San Francisco had 12.8 crimes per 100,000 residents, followed by the small towns of Columbus, Ohio with 12.6 hate crimes and San Jose, California with 11.4 crimes per 100,000.
New York City recorded 6.1 crimes per 100,000, while Chicago, the third largest city in the US, recorded 2.9 hate crimes per 100,000 people.
Although black Americans were the target group in most cities, the level of hate crimes directed toward Asian Americans rose by 339% as people blamed them for the coronavirus pandemic.
Anti-Semitic hate crimes also increased in major cities in 2021 after declining for most of 2020.
Almost all types of crime take place in the Big Apple. In terms of hate crime, New York City recorded 6.1 crimes per 100,000
The nation’s second largest city, Los Angeles, ranks second with 15.5 crimes per 100,000 people.
Brian Levine, director of Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State University, told axios That the pandemic lockdown in 2020 could have the effect of artificially suppressing hate crimes for a year.
Levine described how the center tracked a rise in anti-Asian violence after former President Donald Trump called COVID-19 a ‘China virus’ and a ‘kung flu’.
“New York, LA and Chicago all hit century highs,” Levine said.
The rise in reported hate crimes is partly because cities have created more streamlined ways to report hate, Levine explained.
“But the bottom line is when you’re seeing this type of growth at the best reporting agencies, it’s a scary proposition,” he said.
Looking at the figures over the years, Levine believes that 2020 was a turning point.
“Stereotypes and bigotry that are directed against various groups, especially racial groups, are really anchored in 2020,” he said. ‘Anti-Asian and anti-black in relation to the George Floyd lynching and social justice protests against COVID-19.’
In one of the most shocking hate crimes of 2021, a mass shooting at a chain of Atlanta spas killed eight people, including six Asian women.
According to available data, the vast majority of all American hate crimes are committed by white people, and most hate crimes are motivated by racial or ethnic bias.
In one of the most shocking hate crimes of 2021, a mass shooting at a chain of Atlanta spas killed eight people, including six Asian women. In the picture, Jami Webb, the daughter of Xiaozi Tan, who was killed in the shooting, is consoled by her father Michael Webb outside the Young’s Asian Massage after the fatal shooting in Acworth, Georgia.
But the data also shows that black Americans are listed as perpetrators of hate crimes reported by state law enforcement to the FBI.
According to the report, in at least 13 states, hate crimes recorded by law enforcement enlist black offenders at rates roughly 1.6 to 3.6 times the size of the state’s black population.
‘These repeated disparities … show that – despite the fact that people of color are more likely to be victims of hate violence – the examples of hate violence that are actually documented by the police … are allegedly committed by disproportionately black people,’ the report good states.
As racist attacks on Asian Americans and Asian immigrants have gained widespread attention in recent months, so has the misconception that black Americans were the main perpetrators of such attacks.
“We don’t have a true and precise understanding of what anti-Asian hate looks like during a pandemic,” said Marita Atcubenez, senior director of strategic initiatives at Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC in Washington DC.
“But we know that these commonly discussed assumptions that perpetrators of anti-Asian hate are primarily black or African American are not accurate,” she said.
The US Justice Department has previously warned that white supremacist groups represent a growing security threat following the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
There was a significant increase in anti-Asian violence after former President Donald Trump called COVID-19 the ‘China virus’ and ‘Kung flu’.
A hate crime bill proposed by President Biden to combat violence against Asian Americans was passed by the US Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support last May.
The new law accelerated the Justice Department’s review of hate crimes by placing an officer in charge of the effort. Federal grants will be available to help local law enforcement agencies improve their investigation, detection and reporting of bias-motivated incidents that often go unreported.
Last month an Asian American hate crime shook the hearts of New Yorkers as 40-year-old Michelle Alyssa Go was violently pushed to her death on a subway track in Times Square station.
Police, which are still investigating the attack, said its alleged attacker, Simon Marshall, 61, was inside the subway for nine minutes before pushing Go.
Many New Yorkers traveled to Times Square to honor his life, where a photo of him was displayed on a giant billboard, featuring Mayor Eric Adams—who began his term in office on New Year’s Day with Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. Did – participated.
Two Asian hate crimes have grabbed the hearts of New Yorkers recently. Yao Pan Ma, 61, a Chinese immigrant, (left) was recently taken off life support after being attacked eight months ago while collecting cans in East Harlem. 40-year-old Michelle Alyssa Go (right) was stabbed to death on the subway tracks at Times Square station on January 16
A 65-year-old Asian woman was brutally beaten on her way to church last March
One of the most shocking hate crimes in 2021 occurred in March, where a 65-year-old Asian woman was brutally attacked in Hell’s Kitchen while on her way to church.
During the attack in broad daylight, an unidentified passerby pushed the victim to the floor and kicked her in the head. He reportedly told her: ‘F*** you, you’re not here.’
According to NYPD data, out of 436 hate crimes committed in the first three quarters of last year, only 185 attackers were arrested.
The country’s earliest protection against hate-motivated violence was passed after the Civil War, amid a rise in white supremacist violence against formerly enslaved Africans.
The federal hate crime law was modernized in 1968, and has since expanded to 46 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Arkansas, South Carolina and Wyoming are the only states that do not have hate crime laws.
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