I been saying for years criminals racially target Asians.

armchair_warrior

It happens in nyc too. just not as well reported. by the none ethnic media.



Multi-agency effort targets crimes against Asian businesses

By Kathleen Brady Shea

Inquirer Staff Writer

The first clues came from thugs' confessions. They were targeting homes of Asian American businesspeople because of two assumptions.

They keep their savings at home, the bandits told authorities. And they don't call 911.

Those perceptions, accurate or not, have made the region's Asian American entrepreneurs magnets for "heinous and violent" home invasions, authorities said Thursday.

Such magnets that in the last 75 days alone, a dozen robberies, including 11 home invasions, have targeted Asian American business owners - six in Delaware County, four in Philadelphia, and one each in Chester and Montgomery Counties, said Delaware County District Attorney G. Michael Green.

Green and more than a dozen law-enforcement representatives, speaking at a community outreach session at Delaware County Community College's Marple campus, said they want to raise public awareness, particularly in the Asian community, and offer crime-prevention tips.

Green said the same multi-agency approach, used two years ago after a similar series of crimes, resulted in federal prosecution of three groups of defendants.

He said some of those defendants admitted that they targeted Asians because they believed them more likely to bring cash home and less likely to call police.

The Philadelphia FBI office's acting special agent in charge, Jayne L. Challman, predicted that authorities would also catch the robbers in the recent spate of attacks - but to expedite that, she said, the FBI is offering a $10,000 cash reward for information that leads to a conviction.

"No piece of information is too small," Challman said, advising people to call 215-418-4000.


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