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Author: Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Year: Released 2024
Method: Curation of data from community reporting tools (Stop AAPI Hate, Asian Americans Advancing Justice’s Stand Against Hate), government agencies (FBI hate crimes reports, US Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics), and other research reports (CSU San Bernardino Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism)
Population: AA and NHPI; national and selected states
Summary of findings: Anti-Asian discrimination and hate incidents are underreported. First, victims often do not report their experiences and Asian American community members are even less likely to report incidents or to seek help due to language barriers, cultural stigma, lack of awareness, fear of government, and mistrust of law enforcement. Second, the majority of incidents of hate and discrimination do not meet the legal criteria to be categorized as crimes or hate crimes; and even those that meet the criteria do not always get reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) hate crime statistics by local authorities (since the reporting is voluntary). Anti-Asian hate crime reported to the police in 16 of America’s largest cities and counties rose 164% in the first quarter of 2021 in comparison to the first quarter of 2020 (CSU San Bernardino). Nearly 900 anti-Asian bias incidents were reported in the FBI hate crime reports between 2019-2021, making up about 8% of the total incidents of anti-Asian incidents (all time) and 3% of total incidents (FBI hate crime reports 2019-2021). Over 80 anti-NHPI bias incidents were reported in the FBI hate crime reports between 2019-2021, making up about 61% of the total incidents of anti-NHPI incidents (all time) (FBI hate crime reports 2019-2021). There were 11,409 reports to Stop AAPI Hate between 2020-2022 and 1,191 reports to Stand Against Hate between 2016 to 2022.