Among the more brutal examples of harassment is that of a gay Chicago man who reported a year's worth of violent assaults by an elderly neighbor. Police response was indifferent to hostile, the report said, with officers once threatening to arrest the victim if he kept complaining. Eventually the neighbor was charged with misdemeanor assault. The Horizons Anti-Violence Project reported 131 victims of hate violence and 166 victims of domestic violence among gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered in 1996. Additionally, Horizons reported 14 cases of police misconduct, with 9 occurring in Chicago and 5 in other jurisdictions.
Horizons also acknowledges a low reporting rate of hate crime by lesbigaytrans.
This low rate is attributed to mistrust and fear of the police. Read more about hate crimes in Chicago.