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Commissioner Levin says data-merge problems and underreporting masked larger 2023 rise in hate crimes
Summary
At the California Commission on the State of Hate meeting Oct. 23, Commissioner Levin presented 2023 hate-crime data showing major reporting gaps — especially a Los Angeles data-merge failure — and warned that preliminary national figures understate increases for multiple bias categories.
Commissioner Brian Levin told the California Commission on the State of Hate on Oct. 23 that 2023 national hate-crime statistics understate the true scope of incidents because of reporting and data-integration problems.
Levin said many jurisdictions participate in federal reporting but that an incomplete merge of Los Angeles data into a new platform omitted almost half of preliminary victim records. "Because almost half of the victims that are in the preliminary data in Los Angeles have not shown up successfully merged into the new data platform," Levin said, "we would have had double the percentage increase had that been counted."…
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