The Mayor of San Francisco, London N. Breed, proposed increasing funding to expand services for Asian crime victims who have limited English proficiency by $500,000.
And since the pandemic began, she said, hate crimes and reported incidents against Asians and Pacific Islanders have increased exponentially.
In 2021 alone, there was a 567 percent increase in reported hate crimes since 2020, the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) reported, while the Stop AAPI Hate coalition tracked more than 10,000 hate incidents from March 2020 through September 2021 nationwide.