The Latest Breaking News from Hate Crimes

LOS ANGELES — Hate crimes soared in California in 2022, with year-over-year rises recorded in incidents targeting virtually every demographic group, according to a report released Tuesday.

Reported hate crimes increased in California in 2022, including instances of violence motivated by bias

Texas Department of Public Safety data shows that bias incidents against queer people occur at over 4 times the rate of all hate crimes.

There has been a sharp increase in public resistance and backlash to the advancement of LGBTIQ+ inclusion and equality recently. The UK charity Stonewall reports that LGBTIQ+ recorded hate crimes in the UK have increased in recent years, and in Australia, there has been a large uptick in anti-LGBTIQ+ related…

Latest figures show there was a 29% increase in hate crimes last year

A new hate crimes bill is inching closer to the possibility of becoming law in South Africa. The bill entrenches human dignity as a foundational value of the country by providing for penalties for explicit acts of violence and discrimination motivated by prejudice and intolerance.

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan House on Tuesday passed a package of bills to reclassify certain offenses as hate crimes and designate the defacement of synagogues, churches or cemeteries as a crime separate from ordinary destruction of property.

The death of AC/DC manager Crispin Dye, who was fatally bashed in Sydney nearly three decades ago, will be probed at an inquiry looking at gay hate crimes.

The death of AC/DC manager Crispin Dye, who was fatally bashed in Sydney nearly three decades ago, will be probed at an inquiry looking at gay hate crimes.

Man accused of targeting Boise’s LGBTQ+ community pleads guilty to hate crimes

BOISE, Idaho — An Oregon man admitted in federal court in Boise that he committed a spree of anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes in the city last October.