article link HOMELESS VIOLENCE MORE COMMON IN CALIFORNIA THAN OTHER STATES mentioning the recent crime of setting a homeless elderly woman on fire in Van Nuys.
"And according to the "State of Homeless in America 2012" by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, California has more than 130,000 homeless people; compared to New York's approximately 63,000 and Florida's less than 57,000 homeless.
Attacks on homeless include beatings, rapes, assaults with a deadly weapon, shootings, exploitation and harassment. In 2010, one percent of these acts of violence involved a homeless person being set on fire. Most attacks are "motivated by the perpetrators’ bias against homeless individuals or their ability to target homeless people with relative ease."
According to the coalition, most of this violence is committed by men under the age of 30..."
..."According to the National Coaition for the Homeless, between 1999 and 2010 there were
1,184 acts of violence committed against homeless people in the U.S. resulting in 312
homeless deaths. In 2010, the coalition ranked California number one for the most number of "hate crimes against the homeless," with 225 incidents occuring throughout these 12 years. Florida follows at number two with 198 incidents..."
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