Essay: Why We Need Hate Crime Laws
There is no need at all for the government’s use or enforcement of hate crimes, they charge people with double jeopardy and for speaking there mind. Which breaks the constitution not only once but twice.
What Is a Hate Crime and why they are unfair; well a hate crime is when someone is targeted for his or her race, color, nationality, origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation, nearly all 50 states have hate crime laws. Hate crimes set up special classes of people with higher government protection violating the constitution. There is a bill making violence towards anyone for his or her gender, sexual orientation, or disability a hate crime. Under new federalization, FBI can deal with hate crimes. When federal courts have to deal with all hate crimes this will cause the courts to back up and become very …show more content…
Hate crime laws compose of 1% of the total violent and property crimes in 1997. Hate crimes statistics vary widely, making it a guess by the judge to be determined if it is a hate crime or not. Mid 2016, legislative sought to make killing a police officer a hate crime, but was turned down. A black man assaulted both a white man and a black man; the white man got more fines against his assaulter than the black man, giving the white man more protection breaking the constitution. Advocacy groups consistently over estimate the number of hate crimes that are reported to the law enforcements every year. According to studies, a bias crime can have a greater impact on people and their mental health then a normal crime. The government wants to have more power over hate crime because it is so hard to determine a hate crime. There is no way to determine if a hate crime was motivated by bias or not without being the person committing the crime. The government decides whether something is a hate crime or not making their decision a guess, which is wrong, is so many ways. (Tatchell
What Is a Hate Crime and why they are unfair; well a hate crime is when someone is targeted for his or her race, color, nationality, origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation, nearly all 50 states have hate crime laws. Hate crimes set up special classes of people with higher government protection violating the constitution. There is a bill making violence towards anyone for his or her gender, sexual orientation, or disability a hate crime. Under new federalization, FBI can deal with hate crimes. When federal courts have to deal with all hate crimes this will cause the courts to back up and become very …show more content…
Hate crime laws compose of 1% of the total violent and property crimes in 1997. Hate crimes statistics vary widely, making it a guess by the judge to be determined if it is a hate crime or not. Mid 2016, legislative sought to make killing a police officer a hate crime, but was turned down. A black man assaulted both a white man and a black man; the white man got more fines against his assaulter than the black man, giving the white man more protection breaking the constitution. Advocacy groups consistently over estimate the number of hate crimes that are reported to the law enforcements every year. According to studies, a bias crime can have a greater impact on people and their mental health then a normal crime. The government wants to have more power over hate crime because it is so hard to determine a hate crime. There is no way to determine if a hate crime was motivated by bias or not without being the person committing the crime. The government decides whether something is a hate crime or not making their decision a guess, which is wrong, is so many ways. (Tatchell