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But there was also an increase in violent crime last year.
APD Interim Chief Harold Medina said initial speculation that the COVID-19 pandemic would lead to large drops in all categories of crime, particularly property crime, were misleading.
“If these individuals are committing such serious crime as auto theft and burglary I don’t think they’re going to follow the public health order and stay home,” he said, adding that in the end, the virus led to increases in some crimes but had “no impact at all” on others.
A chart shows the changes in crime statistics over the past three years. (Cathryn Cunningham/Albuquerque Journal)
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A spate of high-profile assaults on Asian Americans has renewed long-standing criticism from Democrats and civil rights groups that the U.S. government is vastly undercounting hate crimes, a problem that they say has grown more acute amid rising white nationalism and deepening racial strife. The attacks - including several in Northern California over the past month that attracted national attention - followed months of warnings from advocates that anti-China rhetoric from former president Donald Trump over the coronavirus pandemic was contributing to a surge in anti-Asian slurs and violence. Although President Biden last month signed an executive action banning the federal government from employing the sort of “inflammatory and xenophobic” language Trump used to describe the virus - such as “China plague” and “kung flu” - Asian American leaders said the recent attacks demonstrate a need for greater urgency in dealing with such threats.
The Justice Department’s efforts to report and track such incidents have been beset by incomplete and inconsistent data from the nation’s 18,000 local law enforcement agencies.