Former Assemblymember David Chiu suggested a hate crime hotline in 2017, but legislators couldn't see a need. The hotline did launch in 2023, and received over 400 calls in the first four months. | Rich Pedroncelli/APSACRAMENTO, Calif. — War in the Middle East is testing a new system in California to track and respond to hate crimes.
But that could change. “We have been anticipating that we may see an increase,” said Becky Monroe, a senior official at the California Civil Rights Department. In anticipation of a spike, case workers at the Civil Rights Department have been reaching out to mosques, synagogues, and cultural groups that serve Muslim or Arab-American Californians and are concerned about hate crimes, Monroe said.was first floated in 2017 by then-Assemblymember David Chiu in response to the skyrocketing number of hate crimes he said were a result of rhetoric from the Trump administration, but legislators weren’t convinced a hate crime hotline was necessary, Chiu recalled.
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