New data shows continued surge in anti-Asian hate crime reports in some major cities

A new report on hate crimes against Asian Americans has found that 2021 is sustaining the troubling trends of 2020 in some major cities. Across 15 of America's largest cities and counties, there was a 169% increase in anti-Asian hate crime reports to police in the first quarter of 2021 compared to same time period in 2020, with the number of reported incidents rising from 32 to 86, according to an analysis of police data by the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.

New York saw the greatest increase, 223%, with the number of incidents reported to police rising from 13 to 42. San Francisco saw a 140% increase from 5 to 12, and reported incidents in Los Angeles and Boston increased 80% and 60%, respectively.  Nine of the areas did not report individual percentage changes, because the number of reported incidents in 2020 or 2021 was zero. In Miami and Phoenix, the numbers did not change between 2020 and 2021.