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Hate crimes increased by 35% in Orange County in 2020, the largest annual jump in at least a decade, according to a new report. Hate-motivated attacks that did not rise to the level of a crime — known as hate incidents — increased by 69%, driven largely by an 19-fold increase in attacks on Asian Americans. The findings, released Friday by the nonprofit Orange County Human Relations Commission, mirror statewide trends. A state attorney general’s report found that hate crimes reported to law enforcement rose 31% in last year, with attacks against Asians up by 107%. Advertisement California Hate crimes...
