5. San Leandro, CA
Increase: 19
We are continuing our list of US cities where hate crimes are increasing with San Leandro, with the city of around 90,000 residents, which saw more than 600% increase in the number of hate crimes. In 2015 there were only 3 hate offenses while the year later the number was 22. While trying to explain the rise, police officials from San Leandro noted that in 2016 officers classified “incidents as hate crimes in cases that may not initially have been motivated by bigotry, but which involved a racial slur, misogynist comment, or homophobic remark.” Of 22 hate crimes reported in 2016, 15 were racially motivated.
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