NCJ Number
238668
Date Published
2011
Length
29 pages
Annotation
This report presents statistics on hate crimes that occurred in California during 2010.
Abstract
The data cover the number of hate-crime events, hate-crime offenses, victims of hate crimes, and suspects in hate crimes, as well as the number of hate-crime cases referred to prosecutors, cases filed in court, and the dispositions of those cases. Hate-crime events in California increased 0.6 percent, from 120 in 2009 to 107 in 2010.Anti-Hispanic hate-crime events increased 46.9 percent, from 81 in 2009 to 119 in 2010; anti-gay hate-crime events decreased 10.8 percent, from 120 in 2009 to 107 in 2010. Anti-Jewish hate-crime events decreased 20 percent, from 160 in 2009 to 128 in 2010. Hate-crime offenses decreased 0.1percent from 1,427 in 2009 to 1,425 in 2010.Violent hate-crime offenses decreased 1.4 percent, from 906 in 2009 to 893 in 2010. Property hate-crime offenses increased 2.5 percent, from 519 in 2009 to 532 in 2010. The number of hate-crime victims decreased 0.1 percent, from 1,321 in 2009 to 1,320 in 2010. The number of suspects of reported hate crimes decreased 9.2 percent, from 1,202 to 1,092 in 2010. Of the 361 hate crimes referred for prosecution, 270 cases were filed by district attorneys and city attorneys for prosecution. Of these 270 cases, 230 were filed as hate crimes, and 40 were filed as non-bias motivated crimes. Of the 166 cases disposed in time for this report, 70 were hate-crime convictions, 81 were other convictions, and 15 were not convicted. Regarding trend data, hate crimes with a bias toward race/ethnicity/national origin were consistently the most common type of hate crime since 2001. 23 tables and appended data characteristics and known limitations and a criminal justice glossary