NCJ Number
247327
Date Published
2012
Length
29 pages
Annotation
This report provides information on hate crimes that occurred in California during 2011.
Abstract
Major findings from this report on hate crimes that occurred in California during 2011 include the following: hate crime events in the State decreased 4.2 percent from 1,107 in 2010 to 1,060 in 2011, while hate crime offenses decreased 5.5 percent, from 1,425 in 2010 to 1,347 in 2011. The number of victims of reported hate crimes decreased 6.7 percent, from 1,320 in 2010 to 1,232 in 2011, while the number of suspects of reported hate crimes decreased 7.5 percent, from 1,092 in 2010 to 1,010 in 2011; of the 313 hate crimes that were referred for prosecution, 253 cases were filed by district attorneys and city attorneys for prosecution. Hate crimes with a race/ethnicity/national origin bias were consistently the most common type of hate crime in the last 10 years, accounting for 57.5 percent of all hate crime events in 2011; and hate crimes with an anti-Black bias motivation continued to be the most common hate crime, accounting for approximately one-third of all hate crime events since 2002. This report was compiled by the California Department of Justice to provide information on hate crimes in the State that occurred and were reported to local and State law enforcement agencies during 2011. Data from district and city attorneys were also used to show the number of hate crimes referred to prosecutors, the number of cases filed in court, and the dispositions of those cases. Tables and appendixes