Vancouver: “The most common target of crimes was the Jewish community”

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On June 11, 2019 the Vancouver Sun reported:

Statistics obtained by Postmedia via a freedom of information request show the number of hate crimes reported to Vancouver police grew from 47 to 75 between 2014 and 2017. A total of 203 crimes were reported, most of which targeted ethnic and religious minorities…

In Vancouver, which experienced the biggest rise of crimes of any StatsCan metro region between 2014 and 2017, the most common target of crimes was the Jewish community. Between 2016 and 2017, the number of hate crimes against Jews reported to police, for example, jumped from one to 19. Jewish communities in Vancouver were the most common victims of religious vandalism… LGBTQ2S+ communities, especially transgender people and gay men, were the most common targets of violent crime.