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Orange County officials should do more to address hate crimes and incidents, according to a grand jury report released Thursday that also criticized a reduction in oversight and coordination efforts.

Although the number of reported hate crimes dropped from 112 in 2022 to 95 in 2023, the report said the data may not reflect the true scope of the problem due to underreporting and missing data from Costa Mesa, Garden Grove, Orange and Westminster.

“Civil rights organizations cautioned that the apparent drop in hate crimes might reflect underreporting rather than an actual reduction,” the grand jurors said in the report.

“For example, the Anti-Defamation League documented 88 antisemitic incidents in the Orange County/Long Beach region in 2023, a sharp increase from 55 the prior year, suggesting that the official data may under-represent the true scope of the problem.”

The grand jurors said there was also criticism of “the limited inclusion of community partners in the count’s reporting process and highlighted the exclusion of noncriminal hate incidents, such as verbal harassment, distribution of hate flyers, and school-based bullying, which are often left out of law enforcement data.”

The grand jury concluded that there are “substantial barriers to reporting both hate crimes and hate incidents, such as fear of retaliation, distrust of law enforcement, and cultural stigma, which contribute to widespread underreporting.”

There are also “inconsistencies and gaps in how hate crimes and incidents are documented, primarily due to the decentralized nature of data collection” and “diminished collaboration between governmental bodies and community-based organizations.”

Last June, the county board of supervisors “abruptly ended their partnership” with the Orange County Human Relations Council, a nonprofit that has rebranded as Groundswell, the grand jury noted.

The supervisors shrunk the Orange County Human Relations Commission from 11 to seven members and cut out representatives from the cities as well as law enforcement. But the law enforcement representatives were added back this January.

The grand jury noted that an ad hoc committee of the commission was working to define hate incidents, which are not crimes.

“The grand jury questions the rationale behind this objective, given that the (Department of Justice) established a widely accepted definition of hate incidents in 1990, which has already been adopted by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and local law enforcement agencies,” the report said.

The grand jury found that the county “lacks a centralized, coordinated, county-led system that unites all stakeholders to prevent and respond to hate crimes and incidents.”

The grand jury also found that the county’s school districts lack a “centralized database of available materials, resources, and programs for addressing hate crimes and incidents, limiting their ability to effectively combat hate.”

The grand jury said that since racism is a “learned behavior,” it shows the importance of “early intervention” before sixth grade to promote “tolerance and respect.”

The grand jury encouraged county officials to continue funding various programs combating hate crimes and incidents and to “restore the Human Relations Commission to its original 11-member makeup that includes representatives from cities, and should reinstate their monthly meetings.”

Also, the grand jury recommends that by the end of August, the supervisors “should request a status report from the Human Relations Commission on its activities and plans since the termination of its contract with Groundswell.”

The grand jury suggested the county direct the commission to “form a Hate Prevention and Response Coalition modeled after the former Groundswell effort. To avoid duplication, boost impact, and gather better data, it should include representatives from cities, sheriff’s department, district attorney, schools, community groups and affected residents. The coalition should create countywide hate crime protocols, support victims, promote inclusive education and host public events.”

The grand jury recommended that local law enforcement should “increase outreach efforts that encourage the public to report hate crimes and incidents, even if the reports are anonymous. Anonymous reports should be tabulated separately.”

The grand jury wants sheriff’s officials to collaborate with local law enforcement and nonprofits to develop a “centralized portal or reporting mechanism” that would “streamline the process, improve data capture, and make it easier to track and address hate crimes and incidents.”

The grand jury called on the Orange County Department of Education to develop a centralized database of materials and resources and programs focusing on hate crimes and incidents for students as well as expanding curriculums for students in kindergarten through fifth grade.

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  1. Unreported hate crime.
    Unreported means they don’t have that Law Enforcement Education to even make a report.
    Drug Dealer Law Enforcement Task Force!
    Hate, Greed, Corruption, Lust, Death, Lies, Discrimination!
    100% Government Mutiny!
    1000% Cyberfraud & Treason!
    You do have to understand that this is for every Department across the United States of America.
    Whether that be the police department the Sheriff’s Department fire department or the ambulance services of the State of California as well As The United States of America!!!!
    $30 Million A Day $1500.00 Hour
    10.4 trillion dollars Each department of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Times 109 Cities =
    $1,133,600,000,000.00
    1100 E-Trillion Dollars A Year!
    Then the captain of the Police Department pulls in $507,000.00 Times 109 Cities = $55,232,000.00
    And this has been going on since 1995 now you can see why the world is so fucking broke.
    Allied Universal ,Golden West Security Services,
    And you pay your security outfit in the state of California $900 a day to follow my dick around the fucking state right. After you’re making $300 an hour and 50 grand every 72-hour shift how you pull in three quarters of a million dollars just on a monthly basis and you want to tell me I’m the criminal because I have an education in law

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    But to find one of the uneducated law enforcement in the United States of America with a non-commissioned license that’s not broke it’s very rare because each and every one of them was 50 million dollars in the Bank, Broken and looking for the next paycheck.
    Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that a violation has occurred, the Attorney General, for or in the name of the United States, may in a civil action obtain appropriate equitable and declaratory relief to eliminate the pattern or practice.
    Types of misconduct covered include, among other things: Excessive Force, Discriminatory Harassment, False Arrest, Coercive Sexual Conduct, Unlawful Stops, Searches, or Arrests. And only if he feels that there’s a violation.   “IF”  is the Word.
    Now you can understand why them cocaine head are sitting in the captain chair,  Snorting 60 million worth of cocaine. How is probably the first time he’s had any kind of money in his pocket since he came across the border.
    Hell I was told that’s the only place that will not educate a human being across the border.
    What they didn’t find in the train derailment on the 25 and 2020 out there in between Palm Springs and Blythe they all died in the boat explosion in Cancun Sea. 2020
    And here’s another family member.
    Firefighters also located one victim of the blaze, an elderly man, inside the home. Neighbors identified him as Will Rothschild, hailing from the wealthy Rothschild family. Law enforcement is yet to confirm his identity, reported ABC7 News.
    There’s 55 LAPD Locations & 54 Los Angeles Sheriff Department’s Times 109 Cities in the County! For a 96 billion dollars budget for each department. Equals
    10.424 Trillion Dollars A Year Times 109 Department’s
    Equals out to. 1133 Trillion Dollars A Year just for Law Enforcement in Los Angeles County!
    1133 times 3,143 Counties in the United States of America for a total for an idiot is $3.561019E14

    The United States has a total of 3,143 counties and county equivalents, serving as crucial units of local government. The number of counties varies across states due to factors like historical settlement patterns, geographical size, and population distribution

    We don’t have the ability to make $21 an hour .
    I make 30 cents a day.
    They make $300.00 Hour / $550 Hour OT
    Who the Drug Dealers????
    E- Trillions Yearly. Since 1995
    Bone Island of Skid Row!
    Catalina Island, CA.
    Always a new guest with every boat Full

    And now Cher’s  Whole Family has been confirmed!
    Dead by Boat Sanking in Cancun in 2020
    As Well as Every Celebrity in the World Are Dead.
    They Said that Cher was Eaten in Half in Acapulco 2020 with Rest of the Family were All Eaten in Half because somebody Sliced them Before Entering Sea Of Cancun!

    At some point you have to understand you’ve been brainwashed for this this long up to this point because of the fact that the world has to destroy the nation long before it can do anything in the world because this used to be the United States of America the land of the brave and the home of the free. And 1855, the British sacked the White House and burnt it to the fucking ground and America was lost at that point because it became the Land of the Dead in the home of the corruption. Where I feel that we can all learn from my mistakes to set the better path forward as the global Federation of many nations of many galaxies. Where we learn from our past mistakes so we don’t have to get burnt for them

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