Michael Kapp, a spokesperson for LA County, said the county’s Human Relations Commission released the report specifically on Asian hatecrimes, as opposed to all hatecrimes, "because of the significant increase in reported anti-Asian hatecrimes.”
That is all thrown into the misogynist hate-crime category,” she said.
Under the new rule, a case will be recorded as a “hatecrime” when the accuser “perceives it to have been motivated by a hostility based on their sex.”
“Today we have taken another step forward in seeking justice for the victims of this crime and for their family members,” Wallace said in a statement.
Georgia’s new hatecrimes law does not provide for a stand-alone hatecrime.
The HateCrime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill was introduced to the Scottish Parliament in April 2020 for consideration following the independent review by Lord Bracadale, which recommended consolidation of all of Scotland's hatecrime laws into one
On a frigid Chicago night in January 2019, actor Jussie Smollett, a star on the TV drama "Empire," reported that he was the victim of a hate-motivated street attack, but police later accused him of staging the whole affair as a publicity stunt.
'Hate' and the Role of State
Speaking at the partnership summit hosted by the NPCC and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC), Stephens continued: “The role of policing is to investigate crime and, if an allegation of crime is made,
As a former prosecutor, my view is it’s dangerous to simply give the federal government open-ended authority to define a whole new class of federal hatecrime incidents.”
Hatecrimes are dealt with a higher penalty.
And in other news, after actor Jussie Smollett was found guilty of lying to police after faking a hatecrime against himself, former president Donald Trump called Smollett’s actions “a hatecrime in reverse.”
Casey John Roberts is facing one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of violation of civil rights—violent injury and a count of criminal threats—along with hatecrime sentencing enhancements.
The Calgary police defined hate-motivated crimes in their release about Reimer's arrest: "Hate-motivated crimes are recognizable crimes, like assault, theft, vandalism or any other crime, where the offender was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate that
Hirono said that hatecrimes against Asians have increased in every state. The senator’s legislation requires the Department of Justice to expedite a “review of COVID-19 hatecrimes and reports of COVID-19 hatecrimes”.
NASCAR also issued a statement, saying, “Wallace was not the target of a hatecrime," noting that the pull rope was there since last fall and "was obviously well before the 43 team’s arrival and garage assignment."
Prosecutors charged a Seattle man with a felony hatecrime after he allegedly threatened multiple Asian-Americans on two separate occasions earlier this month.
The FBI’s 2024 hate-crime data—released in August 2025—likewise showed anti-Semitic incidents made up roughly 70 percent of religiously motivated hatecrimes and 16 percent of all hate-crime victims, despite Jews making up just 2 percent of the U.S. population
The shootings comes amid a spike in hatecrimes targeting Jewish communities across Canada since October of 2023, when the Israel-Hamas war broke out after the Hamas terrorist group killed nearly 1,200 people and took more than 250 people hostage.
Asked by CBS' "60 Minutes" if the law enforcement restraint leading to Floyd's death last year was a hatecrime, Attorney General Keith Ellison said he wouldn't call it that "because hatecrimes are crimes where there's an explicit motive and of bias.
The majority of hatecrime victims in New York City are Jewish.
The NYPD already last year created an Asian HateCrime Task Force, which includes 25 Asian-American officers who speak English and at least one additional language.
SANTA ANA (CNS)—A Stanton man with prior strike convictions for assault with a deadly weapon and burglary pleaded guilty Jan. 20 to a hatecrime attack in Westminster and was immediately sentenced to a year in jail.
