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Hate Crimes vs Hate Incidents: What to Do?
As we have been hearing in the news, hate crimes and hate incidents have been on the rise not only in Los Angeles, but also across California and the nation.
The November Community-Police Advisory Board (“C-PAB”) meeting included guest speaker Officer Esther Kim, LAPD Gang and Narcotics K-9 Unit, and Treasurer and Secretary of the Korean American Law Enforcement Organization (KALEO), who narrated a Powerpoint presentation to bring community awareness and fundamental education about hate crimes and hate incidents and how to tell the difference.
Bel-Air has had a rash of anti-semitic literature distributed in our community and although Officer Kim’s presentation had a focus on Asian-American/Pacific Islander hate crimes and incidents—a community hit with a 177% rise in hate crime attacks over the past year (Source: KTLA News week of 8/15/22), the information in her presentation covers all targeted communities.
The recent distribution of anti-semitic leaflets left in our driveways and properties are considered hate incidents. A hate incident is an action or behavior motivated by hate. Some examples are name calling, insults, displaying hate material on your property, posting hate material that does not result in property damage and the distribution of materials with hate messages in public places. They are hostile or hateful speech, disrespectful, even discriminatory behavior motivated by the bias. Hate incidents only become hate crimes when it directly incites someone to commit violence either agains the person directly or their property.
West LA LAPD Commanding Officer, Captain Heredia added that the West LA LAPD Station will investigate every hate crime and hate incident with the same investigative vigor. The investigations will include going out to the scene, canvassing neighborhoods with Senior Lead Officers (SLOs) and neighborhood volunteers to look for video cameras to identify potential vehicles that may have been used. Hate incidents will be gathered and documented so that it can be accessed should there be other crimes committed in the future — in other words, documenting hate incidents is a good way to gather intelligence and have it in their files — so if a hate incident results in a crime, LAPD will have all of the information at hand.
If you feel you were targeted in a hate incident, do contact the West LA LAPD Station as well as our Senior Lead Officer, Officer James Allen.
Click here to view LAPD’s “Hate Crimes Resource Pamphlet”
Below are excerpts from Officer Kim’s Powerpoint presentation:
