Hate crimes rise in Orange County for fourth straight year

Hate is on the rise in Orange County. Again.
The number of hate crimes reported in the county has increased in each of the last four years, and the jump in 2018 – 11% – was the largest, according to a county report released Thursday, Sept. 26.
Gideon Bernstein, left, listens as his wife, Jeanne Pepper Bernstein, center, speaks with Norma Lopez, right, executive director of OC Human Relations Commission, about their son, Blaze Bernstein, who was murdered in January 2018, as the latest