The report shows the overall number of hate crimes dipping a tiny amount, but a spike in hate-driven murders. Nationwide, hate crimes against individuals soared upward in 2018, according to a recent FBI report. The police department in Davis, a liberal university town 98 miles to the south with a much smaller population, reported 29 hate crimes during that period. In Redding, a city 70 miles to the north with a smaller, generally more conservative population, the police department reported 34 hate crimes during the 2016-2018 period. But police departments vary greatly in how they track hate crime, and the CPD figure is much lower than the figures provided by police departments in Redding and Davis, cities that are different demographically, but share commonalities, too. In dozens of interviews during the past three years - as a media partner in the nationwide “ Documenting Hate” project - college students and community members have described an increasingly hostile social climate.Ĭhico police (CPD) reported to the FBI that there were four hate crimes in its jurisdiction during the three preceding years, 2016-2018. Hate crime statistics provided by local law enforcement agencies, for several reasons, don’t mirror the violence and bias that members of Butte County’s minority communities face. And it certainly doesn’t reflect overt and subtle offenses that left people who were subjected to them feeling hurt and scared. The zero also doesn’t reflect other unreported incidents, and it doesn’t reflect incidents that may have been driven by hate that didn’t surface in a police report or court hearing. He never reported the incident to police, but his girlfriend saw the bruises. That zero doesn’t reflect what happened to an African American man, who has said he was pelted with beer cans last year by several white people in a pickup truck who were using the N-word. 2017 Desmond Phillips vigil at Chico Police Department.
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