Through Oct. 18, 77 hate crimes had been reported to the [Chicago’s Commission on Human Relations,] a 71% increase from the 45 reported to the commission through the same period last year.The most frequent targets were Jews (18). Black people were the target 16 times, while in 12 cases white people reported being targeted. After that the reported targets were members of the LGBTQ community (8, not including one crime specifically noted as anti-lesbian); Asian (5); biracial (5); Arab (3); Catholic (1).Those numbers reflect only hate crimes reported to the commission; the Chicago Police Department received reports of 120 hate crimes during the same period.
The Chicago Police hate crimes dashboard shows things a bit differently. And the most frightening part is the increase of anti-Jewish hate crimes in Chicago. (The beige line is anti-Jewish crimes.)
Between 2021 and (partial) 2022, anti-Black crimes went from 22 to 27; anti-gay plummeted from 27 to 11, but anti-Jewish hate crimes skyrocketed from 8 to 25 - and there are still two months to go.
While hate crimes against Blacks and Jews are very similar in Chicago, in New York there is no contest - Jews "win" by far in every quarter and every year. Their word chart shows the comparative number of bias crimes so far this year:
In Los Angeles, as of June 30, there were 39 anti-Jewish incidents, down from 48 in the same time period in 2021. Antisemitic crimes are #3, behind anti-Black and anti-Hispanic. But compared to other bias crimes against religions, anti-Jewish crimes are always far ahead of the rest, with only six incidents for all other religions.
And on a victim per capita basis, anti-Jewish crimes always dwarf every other kind of hate crime.
One would think that given this, and given that the motivations behind antisemitism are way different than that behind most other hate crimes, that these big city police departments would be spending more resources on the problem.
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