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As hate crimes continue to rise, LAPD chief blames social media, Kanye West

LOS ANGELES — 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.

Los Angeles Times

FBI report shows high hate crime levels, but data missing

Hate crimes in the U.S. remained relatively high last year after a surge not seen in nearly two decades, according to a new FBI report that experts say is actually an undercount because thousands of police departments didn’t report their data

The Independent UK

FBI's latest hate crimes report missing crucial data from California, New York and Florida

The FBI on Monday released its 2021 tally of hate crimes, but the report falls dramatically short of offering an accurate national snapshot: It excludes data from a swath of law enforcement agencies — including Los Angeles and New York.

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Top cop's olive branch to gay-hate inquiry

NSW Police says no offence was intended when the inquiry into historic gay-hate crimes was told significant police resources had been diverted to the probe.

AAP

Northumbria Police report rise in hate crime as more than 3,300 victims targeted in last 12 months

The North East police force has seen a 5% increase in hate crimes from last year, with 2,000 reports of race related abuse and a 156% rise in gender related crimes

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Colorado LGBTQ nightclub shooting suspect charged with 305 counts including murder and hate crimes

The counts against the shooting suspect include 48 hate crime charges, one for each person known to have been in the club at the time.

Chicago Sun-Times

Club Q shooting suspect charged with 305 counts, including murder, hate crimes, assault

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Prosecutors charged the suspect in last month’s mass shooting at an LGBTQ bar in Colorado Springs with 305 criminal counts Tuesday, including first-degree murder, bias-motivated crimes, assault and attempted murder.

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Garland: Justice Dept.'s civil rights work is key priority

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says the early work of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division meant confronting white supremacists who were intimidating Black voters, and the division's work remains urgent 65 years later amid a surge of hate crimes

The Independent UK

NSW gay hate inquiry told everyday policing did not adequately respond to bias crimes

A former member of a disbanded specialist unit complained to a colleague that NSW Police resisted attempts to integrate a hate crimes response into policing, an inquiry has heard.

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Antisemitic hate crimes in NYC are on the rise, NYPD figures show

Tribune News Service

Antisemitic hate crimes in NYC are on the rise, NYPD figures show

NEW YORK — Antisemitic hate crimes in New York City more than doubled last month from a year ago, New York Police Department data show — a troubling trend that unfolded against a backdrop of high-profile figures making headlines for remarks targeting Jewish people.

Tribune News Service

Judge blasts ‘offensive’ NSW Police claim at gay hate probe

NSW Police assertions that a dozen homicide investigations and reviews are stalled due to a gay-hate crimes inquiry are "offensive" and "misguided",

The New Daily

Buffalo shooter pleads guilty to domestic terrorism motivated by hate

Payton Gendron, 19, faces a mandatory life sentence.

Axios

Anita Chabria: California takes the lead on hate. That's a good thing. Someone has to

How do you stop hate crimes? How do you even know where to begin?

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Community response to Club Q shooting could help Colorado Springs shed 30-year-old anti-gay image

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Last weekend's tragedy at Club Q, when an attacker killed two bartenders and three customers and shot 17 others inside the nightclub before two patrons intervened, in several ways united what some view as a divided community.

ABC News

NSW gay hate inquiry told of violence, brutality during first week of public hearings

Sydney activist Garry Wotherspoon told an inquiry into LGBT hate crimes of how he was bashed in 1970 for being gay. It was among the many harrowing stories that paint a strikingly different picture of the harbour city than what most people experience today.

The Guardian - US

Will the Colorado gay club shooting be prosecuted as a hate crime?

LGBTQ Coloradans have no doubt of the motive for the deadly attack, but bias-crime legislation in the state is complicated

AAP

Abusing lesbians in '80s seen as fair game

Lesbian women who turned down the advances of men faced violence and abuse amid a wave of gay hate in Sydney in the '80s and '90s, an inquiry has been told.

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The Conversation

Suspect in the Colorado LGBTQ shootings faces hate crimes charges – what exactly are they?

The 22-year-old suspected shooter at a gay night club in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who allegedly killed five and injured dozens faces five counts of murder and hate crimes charges.

The Conversation

US LGBT nightclub shooting shows why Australia must reform hate crime laws

News of yet another deadly shooting at a United States LGBTIQ+ nightclub has again brought hate crime to the forefront of public conversation.

Tribune News Service

Gov. Hochul signs anti-bias bills, urges New York to combat ‘rising tide’ of hate

NEW YORK — Responding to a spate of hate crimes in New York City and across the U.S., Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed a pair of anti-bias bills into law and called on New Yorkers to reclaim the state from bigots who have butchered communities’ sense of security.

Nottingham Post

Rise in reports of hate crimes against transgender people in Nottinghamshire

It could be due to more reporting

The Denver Post

Club Q shooting suspect arrested on suspicion of hate crimes, murder; police lower number of injured victims to 18

DENVER — The 22-year-old suspected of killing five and injuring 18 in a shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs was arrested on suspicion of hate crime and murder charges, court records show.

Los Angeles Times

Man arrested on murder, hate crime charges in deadly shooting at Colorado gay nightclub

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A man suspected of killing five people and injuring at least 18 others in a shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado has been arrested on suspicion of murder and hate crimes, according to court records.

AAP

Inquiry hears of violence at gay beats

A gay rights activist has told an inquiry about a string of violent incidents he experienced at popular gay beats he frequented between 1969 and 1998.

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