Los Angeles Hate Crime Alert: Oct. 14 – Nov. 9, 2019

There were 19 reported hate crimes from Oct. 14 - Nov. 9
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There were 19 reported hate crimes in the City of Los Angeles from Oct. 14 – Nov. 9, 2019. The total number of hate crimes reported from Jan. 1 – Nov. 9, 2019 is 279.

 

We are tracking hate crimes and hate incidents reported to the LAPD this year. There is a lag in when the LAPD data become available, so we publish our reports as the data come in. Read the previous two here: Los Angeles Hate Crime Alert: Oct. 9 – 15, 2019 and Los Angeles Hate Crime Alert: Oct. 2 – 8, 2019.

 

The LAPD defines hate crime as “any criminal act or attempted criminal act directed against a person or persons based on the victim’s actual or perceived race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability or gender.” The LAPD’s publicly available data do not always indicate why the police designated a particular crime as a hate crime.

 

hate crime card 261 panorama city

hate crime card 262 echo park

hate crime card 263 pacoima

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hate crime card 265 florence

hate crime card 266 westlake

hate crime card 267 chinatown

hate crime card 268 university park

hate crime card 269 koreatown

hate crime card 270 downtown los angeles

hate crime card 271 koreatown

hate crime card 272 hollywood

hate crime card 273 valley glen

hate crime card 274 boyle heights

hate crime card 275 boyle heights

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hate crime card 277 westlake

hate crime card 278 canoga park

hate crime card 279 valley glen

 

How we did it: We examined publicly available LAPD data on reports of hate crimes. For neighborhood boundaries, we rely on the borders defined by the Los Angeles Times. Learn more about our data here.

 

LAPD data only reflects crimes that are reported to the department, not how many crimes actually occurred. In making our calculations, we rely on the data the LAPD makes publicly available.

 

The LAPD periodically updates past crime reports with new information, leading the department to recategorize past reports. We have been tracking hate crimes since Jan. 1, 2019, numbering them as the reported crime data is made public. Beginning April 1, 2019, we started re-numbering according to the updated numbers from the LAPD. We will look every quarter to see if and how the LAPD has re-categorized past hate crimes.

 

Additionally, revised reports do not always automatically become part of the public database. But, we will keep monitoring hate crimes in the City of Los Angeles.

 

Want to know how your neighborhood fares? Or simply just interested in our data? Email us at askus@xtown.la.