China News Service, April 21. According to the US "World Journal" report, the New York news website "The City" and "The Marshall Project", which focuses on justice, recently analyzed the hate crime data of the New York City police and found that they were targeted at 65 years of age and above. The harassment of Asian elders has increased the most. Among the attacks on Asian elders, nearly half of the suspects are of Asian descent, followed by African Americans.
This investigation report found that from 2019 to 2020, the total number of assault alarms received by the city police dropped by nearly 10%, but the number of attacks involving Asians as victims has increased; for the elderly over the age of 65, this comparison In particular, the number of attacks against Asians in this age group has increased by 11%, but the number of attacks against Africans and whites has fallen below the same period last year.
In 2020, the city police received 303 reports of secondary assaults against Asian elders over 65 years old, an increase of 11% over 2019, mostly in Asian-populated areas, such as Flushing, Queens and Chinatown in Manhattan; Ethnicity varies, but in 2020 attacks on Asian elderly people, nearly half of the suspects are Asian, 15% are African, 12% are Hispanic, and 10% are white.
According to New York State law, the crime of assault includes a person making physical contact or threatening physical harm to another person, stalking the other person, or repeating actions that disturb the other person.
Many lawyers said that attacks also include verbal attacks, such as using racially discriminatory language, spitting, and pushing.
In New York, although a person can be prosecuted for hate crimes by choosing a victim based on race, age, gender, religion, or other protected characteristics, or committing an act of infringement, the intention is often difficult to prove in the judicial process.
According to data from the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services, in 2020, 21 suspects arrested for second-level attacks in New York City were charged with hate crimes, and another 2,323 single-second-level assault arrests were not prosecuted as hate crimes.
This rate is the same as the previous year.
According to the city police, there have been three incidents of attacks on Asian plainclothes policemen in Manhattan this month, and all three suspects have been arrested and charged for hate crimes.
But many other cases did not end up in the end because there were no police witnesses.
The analysis also found that attacks on Asians aged 18 to 44 have declined in the past year, while the situation for Asian elderly is completely the opposite.
(Hong Qunchao)