Hate crimes were up in 2023 in Los Angeles County and transgender people experienced the most hate crimes.

The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations released its annual report on hate crimes that were reported to law enforcement. They said that there were 1350 hate crimes reports in 2023, which was a 45% increase over 2022, NBC Los Angeles reports.

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Anti-trans hate crimes increased a lot in Los Angeles
Hate crimes are up across the board, with trans people targeted.

This is the highest reported rate of hate crimes since the commission started tracking hate crimes data in 1980.

Transgender people were the most common victims, reporting 99 hate crimes in 2023, up 25% from the previous year. Most anti-trans hate crimes in LA in 2023 were violent crimes, including assault, intimidation, and robbery.

Seventy-five percent of anti-trans hate crimes targeted trans women. Men were the suspects in most of the cases.

Hate crimes documented in the year 2023 grew to a peak and set multiple records for highest counts of certain targeted groups – African Americans, Asians, Jewish people, Latino/as, LGBT* individuals and transgender people – and included highest counts for anti-immigrant slurs, Middle East conflict-related crimes, and crimes with evidence of White supremacist ideology,” the report stated.

Religious hate crimes also increased in 2023, including those against Jewish people.

Black people were the biggest group of victims among racial minorities, with anti-Asian hate crimes also seeing a rise in 2023 of 31%.