Reported SF hate crimes against AAPIs, LGBTQs were up in 2021
While most mainstream media attention focused on the massive increase in hate crimes against Asian American and Pacific Islanders in San Francisco last year, the numbers were also up a striking 50% for LGBTQs, the police department reported January 25.
Reported anti-LGBTQ hate crimes in San Francisco were up 50% in 2021 over the prior year, according to preliminary numbers released by the department.
In a chart of preliminary hate crime statistics, the San Francisco Police Department had 15 listed anti-LGBTQ hate crimes in 2021, compared to 10 in 2020.
Both numbers are down from 34 in 2019. Prior years and a breakdown of whether the crimes targeted people for being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer were not made available in the chart.
