Office of the Attorney General

LOS ANGELES - Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today released an "encouraging" 2009 annual report showing that hate crimes in California fell by more than 20% last year, but he warned that we are still a long way from ending bigotry and prejudice.

"While the drop in these crimes is encouraging," Brown said, "hate has certainly not been banished from California. The sheer total of incidents motivated by hate is a reminder of how much harder we need to work to overcome prejudice, bigotry and ignorance."

Read the entire news release here.