| When will it stop??? |
| When will it stop?? |
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| HATE CRIMES |
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| WHAT IS HATE VIOLENCE? "Hate violence" refers to acts of violence that are motivated by hatred at persons in a targeted group. Hate violence is directed at persons because of a particular characteristic. These characteristics include race, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, gender, and disability. Often a person is directly attacked. For example, 95% of all anti-gay violence is directed at a person rather than property. When property is attacked it is done in a way that seeks to offend, threaten, and/or emotionally injure people in the targeted group. Hate violence is excessively brutal. Hate violence is terroristic in nature. Hate violence is about power and control. Hate violence is anti-democratic. |
| THE CURRENT STATISTICS Characteristics of Hate Crimes Hate crimes involve a higher level of assaults against persons than crimes generally. 45% to 55% of bias crimes are personal assaults, whereas only 10% of all crimes involve assault. Hate crimes are more violent than crimes generally. Assaults causing physical injury occur in 74% of bias crimes, versus 29% of non-bias crimes. Attacks are often preceded by a series of confrontations and incidents that escalate in severity. Hate crimes are more likely than other criminal activity to be committed by groups of perpetrators. Most crimes against persons are committed by someone the victim knows; hate crimes, however, are more likely to be committed by strangers. Remember, statistics are merely a numerical representation. They cannot ever convey the fear, grief, torment, and pain suffered by the human beings against whom the crimes were committed. |
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| "Being on either end of a violent situation, whether you seem to have come out with the upper hand or whether you don't seem to,it doens't resolve anything. It escalates the problem. Hatred leaves to more hatred. Violence leads to more violence." - Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys |
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