REPORT SAYS MORE ASIAN-, PACIFIC-AMERICANS ATTACKED ASSOCIATED PRESS.Violence against Asian- and Pacific-Americans increased slightly in 1995, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a private research report being released today. The increase, however, was much greater in California than elsewhere in the nation. But the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium said the situation was likely worse than the numbers indicate since many states don't track the data and many victims don't report the crimes. The consortium documented at least 458 incidents last year, compared with 452 cases in 1994. The group recorded at least 335 incidents in 1993, the year it first began compiling com·pile tr.v. com·piled, com·pil·ing, com·piles 1. To gather into a single book. 2. To put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources: statistics. ``The fact that there was even a slight increase when the FBI is reporting that all other serious crimes are falling is an important indication that there is a problem,'' said executive director Karen Narasaki Karen K. Narasaki (b. 1958 Seattle, Washington) is the President and Executive Director of the Asian American Justice Center, formerly known as the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC). AAJC is a national Washington, D.C. . Violent crime overall dropped 4 percent in 1995, the FBI reported in May. The group's report said race was the motive in about 90 percent of the 1995 cases, with the remainder categorized cat·e·go·rize tr.v. cat·e·go·rized, cat·e·go·riz·ing, cat·e·go·riz·es To put into a category or categories; classify. cat as suspected bias cases. The report found a dramatic increase in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , where cases jumped by more than 80 percent - from 63 in 1994 to 113 incidents in 1995. |
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