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Latest hate crime report shows 'a historic surge' in Anti-Asian American hate incidents, CSUSB professor says
USA Today
May 7, 2021
Violence against Asian Americans and Asians has grown despite increased national attention and political action against anti-Asian hate, experts said.
There was a more than 164% increase in anti-Asian hate crime reports to police in the first quarter of 2021 in 16 major cities and jurisdictions compared with last year, according to a report from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
President Joe Biden signed an executive action condemning racism and intolerance against Asian Americans and has repeatedly expressed concern about the rise in violence.
Biden’s change in tone from the previous administration “probably” helped, but political rhetoric is not enough to quash the rise, according to Brian Levin, author of the CSUSB report and a professor of criminal justice.
“Even with President Biden and Congress making admirable efforts, there’s still a subculture that is vulnerable to either a shallow level of prejudice or a very deep level of prejudice,” he said. “Even people with low, shallow prejudices can act violently based on situational factors.”
Levin, who has tracked hate incidents for nearly 30 years, said the rise in anti-Asian hate crime reports may get worse as COVID-19 restrictions lift.
“We had a 146% increase in 2020, and that is now being accelerated and sustained,” he said. “This is a historic surge and it requires immediate action by civic leaders, educators and policymakers and law enforcement particularly in the area of outreach.”
Read the complete article at “'A historic surge': Anti-Asian American hate incidents continue to skyrocket despite public awareness campaign.”
The CSUSB Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism’s latest research on hate crimes against Asian Americans was cited in the following:
New data shows rise in anti-Asian attacks
NBC News
May 6, 2021
In a segment about hate crimes and incidents targeting Asian Americans throughout the nation cited Cal State San Bernardino’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism’s latest report. The report, released earlier this month, looked at police data from 16 major cities and found a 164 percent increase in reports of anti-Asian hate crimes compared to this time last year.
Margaret Cho is done coping with Asian hate in silence: 'The invisibility is the worst'
TODAY (NBC News)
May 7, 2021
Margaret Cho, arguably one of the most visible Asian American performers in pop culture, discusses the rise in anti-Asian hate incidents that have spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic. A recent compilation of hate crime data revealed that an increase in attacks against Asian Americans in 2020 has only persisted into 2021. Released by the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, the research compared data from the first quarter of 2020 to the same time period in 2021 and found that hate crimes surged by 169 percent.
Despite this recent explosion, Cho pointed out that this isn’t a new chapter in American history.
Nearly two-thirds of anti-Asian hate incidents reported by women, new data shows
CBS News
May 7, 2021
Women reported nearly 65% of anti-Asian hate incidents nationally between March 2020 and March 2021, according to data released Thursday by a national advocacy coalition. Stop AAPI Hate reported a total of 6, 603 hate incidents, a broad term that can include hate crimes such as physical assaults but also incorporates verbal and online harassment, shunning, and civil rights violations.
But data collected by Stop AAPI Hate and others, including the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, has shown that incidents targeting the Asian-American community are continuing to spike in 2021 after racist stereotypes linked to the COVID-19 pandemic first fueled an uptick in 2020. The national news media has highlighted a recent spate of violent attacks on Asian-Americans, and investigators in Georgia have said they are taking a "hard look" at the motivations of a White shooter who killed six Asian-American women and two other people at three Atlanta-area spas in March.
More assaults on Asian American women reported in San Francisco, Baltimore and New York
CNN
May 6, 2021
Asian American women keep getting attacked in cities across the US. Horrifying assaults have been reported in San Francisco, Baltimore and New York City within the last week. The attacks come as reports of anti-Asian violence increase nationally and Congress considers a bill to combat a surge in hate crimes targeting the Asian American community.
The latest attacks come after researchers at the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino published a report earlier this month that analyzed preliminary data from more than a dozen of the nation's largest local law enforcement agencies. Police in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Seattle, Dallas and San Jose, California, reported an increase in anti-Asian attacks last year compared to the past five years, the study shows.
Asian American health workers fight virus and racist attacks
Associated Press
May 7, 2021
For health care workers of Asian and Pacific Islander descent, “it seems like we’re fighting multiple battles at the same time — not just COVID-19, but also racism,” says Natty Jumreornvong, a student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
Police reports of anti-Asian hate crimes in 26 big U.S. cities and counties shot up 146% last year, while hate crimes overall rose 2%, according to California State University, San Bernardino’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. The advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate fielded nearly 3,800 reports of assault, harassment and discrimination from mid-March 2020 through the end of February — before a gunman killed eight people, including six of Asian heritage, at Atlanta-area massage businesses in March.
Asian Americans reported being targeted at least 2,400 times this year
CNN
May 6, 2021
Stop AAPI Hate, which has tracked reports of racism and discrimination against Asian Americans since March 19, 2020, says it has received 6,603 firsthand complaints since last year. Its report published May 6 comes after researchers at the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino released their study earlier in May that analyzed preliminary data from more than a dozen of the nation's largest local law enforcement agencies. Police in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Seattle, Dallas and San Jose, California, reported an increase in anti-Asian attacks last year compared to the past five years, the study shows.
Report shows breadth of anti-Asian racism with attacks from Alhambra to Michigan, in schools, restaurants
Los Angeles Times
May 7, 2021
A report from Stop AAPI Hate released Thursday shows the breadth of anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic. Racist attacks, some verbal and some physical, were reported in cities like Alhambra and New York with large Asian populations and Muskegon with few Asian residents.
The sudden spike could be due in part to greater awareness that Stop AAPI Hate, founded by a coalition of Asian American advocacy groups, is collecting reports about racist incidents. But law enforcement agencies around the country are also seeing a large increase in reported anti-Asian hate crimes.
New York saw the greatest increase, at 223%, followed by 140% in San Francisco and 80% in Los Angeles, in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period last year, according to a report by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino.
Asian Americans buy more guns to protect families after rise in attacks, trade groups say
NextShark
May 6, 2021
In response to the alarming rise in violence against the community, more Asian Americans are reportedly buying guns for the first time, ignoring calls of advocates against firearms.
Police data analyzed by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino showed an increase of 169% in anti-Asian hate crimes in the first quarter of 2021, compared to the same period last year.
Asian hate incident data shows discrimination skyrocketing in pandemic: Report
MyCentralOregon.com
May 7. 2021
The latest data from the group Stop AAPI Hate shows that 6,603 hate incidents against Asians and Pacific Islanders were reported to the organization between mid-March 2020 when the pandemic began to March 31, 2021.
The surge in hate incidents shown in the report mirrors those found by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, which found that reporting of crimes that targeted Asian people rose by nearly 150% in major U.S. cities from 2019 to 2020.
University professor and Asian students discuss anti-Asian hatred and attacks on community
University Press
May 6, 2021
Within the past year, Asians around the world have been victims of hate and harassment.
Researchers identified 95 anti-Asian hate crimes reported to authorities in the first half of the year, compared with the 36 reported in 2020, according to a CNN article. Hate crimes against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community often go unreported because of language barriers or distrust of law enforcement.
Within the past year, Asian Americans have been at the forefront of violent attacks on their community. Anti-Asian hate crimes that were reported to police have risen 164% for the first half of the year in comparison to the 146% for the first half of 2020, according to the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism.
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