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Article: Hate Crime Stats Released by Atty. Gen.
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- August 16, 2001
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Precinct Reporter
08-16-2001
Hate Crime Stats Released By Atty. Gen.
Attorney General Bill Lockyer released the latest hate crime statistics
showing the number of reported incidents in California hovering around
1,960 during the last two years, but declining 4.7 percent from four years
earlier when the highest number of reported cases reached 2,054.
"While no clear trend can be discerned from these hate crime numbers, there
is one encouraging development - an increase in the number of law
enforcement agencies reporting hate crimes," Lockyer said. "In 2000, there
were 1998. But, as anyone working on the issue of hate crime reporting
knows, there still is more work to be done to address the problem ...