Law Against Hate Crimes
The first law against hate crimes was passed in 1968 as a civil rights act; the law was aimed at protecting people against any attacks based on race, religion or origin. A crime motivated by gender, disability and sexual preference could not be prosecuted as a hate crime until 2009.The FBI says that a hate crime can target either a person or property and can be motivated in whole or in part by biases, meaning offenders can have other motives besides hate. To track attacks such as these, the FBI now collects voluntary reports of hate crimes from local jurisdictions across the country. The FBI began reporting hate crime statistics since 1996. In 2015, there were 5,818 hate crime incidents reported, the majority of those were based on race and
ethnicity. There were about 340 more hate crimes in 2015 than in 2014. Hate crimes occur during a period of heightened rhetoric, like a presidential election. Whenever a vulnerable group is given national attention; whether the attention is positive or negative , people who are biased against the group may act against the. The FBI reports that the numbers of hate crimes have decreased over several years, with the exception of 2015. The hate crime count is underreported to the FBI. Some state, city and local police agencies simply don't collect or disclose the data, because they fear that it may reflect negatively on their communities. Student body president at a local college had ignored horrific racial slurs, only to end up stabbed when the criminals realized they weren’t getting to him. The popular, Nigerian-born young man survived the four wounds to his chest, arm, neck and stomach. What qualifies this grisly, unjust violence as a hate crime is the presence of racist speech: it gives the awful people who said it to be a motivation. It wasn’t a crime that happened to be committed against a minority, but a crime committed because the victim was a minority.
A lesbian woman experienced anti-gay slurs and physical assaults for purely discriminatory and hateful reasons. The woman listened to two men insult her for wearing a “Legalize Gay” t-shirt, with one going so far as to throw a punch at her. Both of them shoving her and screaming slurs at her
ethnicity. There were about 340 more hate crimes in 2015 than in 2014. Hate crimes occur during a period of heightened rhetoric, like a presidential election. Whenever a vulnerable group is given national attention; whether the attention is positive or negative , people who are biased against the group may act against the. The FBI reports that the numbers of hate crimes have decreased over several years, with the exception of 2015. The hate crime count is underreported to the FBI. Some state, city and local police agencies simply don't collect or disclose the data, because they fear that it may reflect negatively on their communities. Student body president at a local college had ignored horrific racial slurs, only to end up stabbed when the criminals realized they weren’t getting to him. The popular, Nigerian-born young man survived the four wounds to his chest, arm, neck and stomach. What qualifies this grisly, unjust violence as a hate crime is the presence of racist speech: it gives the awful people who said it to be a motivation. It wasn’t a crime that happened to be committed against a minority, but a crime committed because the victim was a minority.
A lesbian woman experienced anti-gay slurs and physical assaults for purely discriminatory and hateful reasons. The woman listened to two men insult her for wearing a “Legalize Gay” t-shirt, with one going so far as to throw a punch at her. Both of them shoving her and screaming slurs at her