Posted on 01/29/2022 3:10:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
On Jan. 25, the San Francisco police department issued preliminary data about crime in the city. Asian Americans saw a spike in crime targeting their community, from single digits to 60 reported hate crimes in 2021.
Just nine such incidents were reported in 2020 and eight in 2019.
Reported hate crimes against Asian Americans have risen around the country, with the COVID-19 pandemic — which started in Wuhan, China, and was covered up for weeks by the communist regime — being commonly cited as a cause for the upswing.
The rise in crimes committed against ethnic Asians also follows the “Defund the Police” movement, which kicked off in mid-2020 as a response to the death of George Floyd. The vast majority of violent incidents involving Asian victims have occurred in urban areas, with elderly and less affluent individuals being at greater risk.
San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott called the six-fold increase in crimes committed against Asians as “significant” and “alarming.”
“I am heartbroken, I’m frustrated, I’m embarrassed, I’m angry about the violence that has continued to impact many of the people who are part of our Asian community, but especially our seniors,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed said at a news conference.
Breed tweeted that the city introduced pro-law enforcement initiatives last year, such as senior escort programs, foot beats, and community patrols, to protect the Asian community.
Thirty-one of the 60 alleged hate crimes were committed by a single individual who is currently under arrest.
In August, police had arrested 36-year-old Derik Barreto, who rode around the city in his scooter and used to vandalize Chinese businesses. He did these crimes for five months. Barreto is facing 33 charges and is scheduled for a court hearing on Jan. 31.
Scott said that police would be present during the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations and popular annual parade in the city.
The latest statistics of crimes against Asians in San Francisco come following the brutal murder of Michelle Alyssa Go, a 40-year-old Vietnamese American woman, on Jan. 15 in a New York subway station. While waiting for a train, a deranged homeless man pushed her into an oncoming train.
The incident has triggered proposals for installing shove-preventing screen doors. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) had earlier called them expensive.
“Platform doors are an idea that works in many places, but there are special complexities in New York… That said, we’re always looking for ways that we can make the system safer,” MTA Acting Chair Janno Lieber told reporters.
A new report published by the Asian Youth Center and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles shows that roughly one-third of Asian Americans in California’s San Gabriel Valley have either faced anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic or know of family members who have experienced such hate.
Most of the incidents involved verbal attacks. The majority of survey participants said that they are more “vigilant and defensive” now while leaving their homes. Half of the parents who took part in the survey expressed concerns about their children being subjected to racial insults and bullying.
In April last year, a survey by Pew Research Center had found that 81 percent of Asian American adults felt violence against their community was increasing. Only 32 percent said someone supported them when they faced abuse.
Is it time to start imitating Bernie Goetz?
Do I need to guess the racial demographics behind the anti-Asian hate?
Those white supreemists are tricky. They demand that the police be de-funded so they can start attacking Asians. Thank God we have Merrick Garland to reign in these dangerous klansmen. Sarcasm.
Are the crimes against all asians or mostly against orientals?
After 15 years of listening to many conversations in Mandarin between my wife and her friends, I think I know EXACTLY why black people hate Chinese:
The word 那个 in Chinese translates to “that one” or “this one”, and in pinyin it is spelled Nage. When spoken in Mandarin, it pronounces as “negge”. It is used often when Chinese folks speak to each other. Black people hear it wrong, thinking the Chinese are using a racial slur.
They are not.
Please pass this along if you get the opportunity.
But yes you are right, for a placeholder, instead of going "uuummmmmmm" or "errrrr..." like we do in English, the Chinese go "Niga, Niga....".
One bit of friendly advice to our Asian neighbors:
NEVER vote Dem.
It could cost all of our lives. It’s not clever or cute or smart-——it’s wrong.
Soft on crime, defund the police Dems risk violence and death for all of us.
I doubt the rising crime is singling out Asians. I’m sure whites are also being victimized. But who cares about us?
I suggest the thugs not try doing this in Korean areas and neighborhoods. Revenge would be swift and there would not be any witnesses.
Asians better be brushing up on that Kung Fu Fighting. The bros are big and mean and take it out on Asians for some reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPpHxNtVBko
Gosh, whose doing it?
So what are the racial demographics behind the anti-Asian hae?
White animals?
Brown animals?
Black Animals?
Combo Animals?
San Francisco is a very “Chinese” city (I believe they have the oldest Chinatown, dating back to the Gold Rush when they were brought over to make the railroad heading eastward); I’ve never seen a place with Chinese so thoroughly assimilated. They work every job whites would do elsewhere, as opposed to the Chinese professionals that many of us meet in other parts of the country. There are plenty of Chinese in the NYC metro area (and they’ve been here a long time); I’ve still never seen a Chinese cop here.
That described blacks in Atlanta. Whenever I visited, I saw blacks working at every level of the economy. Cab drivers, retail clerks, managers, even engineers.
Very interesting; I’ve never been to Atlanta. Makes sense.
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