The new statistics showed that with less than two weeks left in the year the city will almost certainly top 2021’s total of 615 reported hate crimes. That tally was the most among large U.S. metropolitan areas.
Hate crime reports across Los Angeles are up 13% over last year’s record-setting levels, according to LAPD Chief Michel Moore, who said he believes inflammatory rhetoric on social media was contributing to the increase.
The only group to see a decrease in the number of attacks or other crimes was the city’s Asian American and Pacific Islander subgroups, which were victimized in 20% fewer incidents compared with a year ago, when they experienced a sizable uptick in incidents. California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta referred to last year’s numbers as “an epidemic of hate.”
Later in Tuesday’s meeting, Moore blamed the rise, in part, on the growth of racist and bigoted speech online — which often goes unchecked. “We see Kanye West and others that have gone to Twitter and other social media platforms and we’ve seen other platforms such as Parler that have been created solely ... for people with extremist views to have a platform,” Moore said during Tuesday’s meeting. “And that, I think, is dangerous.”
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