November 13, 2009
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Wire Service: AP
https://www.oklahoman.com/article/feed/106001/hate-crimes-up-against-gays-jews-in-calif
The California Attorney General's office says that more gay and Jewish people were the victims of hate crimes last year even though the overall number of bias-related crimes declined slightly.
A report released Friday showed that in 2008 there were 1,397 crimes motivated by racial, religious and other forms of bias, a 2 percent drop from a year earlier.
More than half were based on a victim's race or ethnicity and of these, the vast majority were directed against black people.
Hate crimes based on religious bias were the second most common.