Hawaii Hate Crime Case Turns on Term With Deep History
In a case believed to be the first where the U.S. has prosecuted Native Hawaiians for hate crimes, a federal judge sentenced two men to...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 2, 20232 min read
Biden Administration Slow To Implement Hate Crime Law
When President Biden signed a bill on hate crimes in 2021, he said many Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, were...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 20, 20232 min read
FBI Hate Crime Data Called 'Terrible, Incomplete, and Unusable'
In the spring of 2020, someone defaced two synagogues in Huntsville, Al., with antisemitic graffiti. Police and federal agents swooped in...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 4, 20232 min read
Thousands of Police Agencies Didn't Report To 2021 FBI Hate Crime Data
The FBI recorded a drop in reported hate crimes in 2021, but the year's tally does not give a true account of hate crimes in the U.S. as...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 13, 20222 min read
Hate Crime Reports To FBI Lag As Cities Fail To Report Data
Reports of hate crimes in the U.S. fell last year, but the FBI acknowledged that the data were far less complete than in years past...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 6, 20221 min read
Mississippi Man Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime For Burning A Cross
A Mississippi man pleaded guilty to a federal hate-crime charge for burning a cross in his front yard to intimidate Black neighbors. Axel...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 25, 20222 min read
Conservative Aggression Towards LGTBQ Communities on the Rise
Experts who monitor the far right have watched for months as public aggression toward the LGBTQ community in general and the transgender...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 18, 20222 min read
Buffalo Mass Shooter Plans Guilty Plea to 25 State Charges
The defendant in last May's racist mass murder in a Buffalo grocery store is expected to plead guilty to all 25 state charges against him...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 15, 20221 min read
One Juvenile Responsible For Dozens Of Black College Threats
A single juvenile who has been linked to a series of threats against historically Black colleges this year has been prosecuted as a minor...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 11, 20222 min read
FBI's Wray Condemns Antisemitism, Arrest Made In Synagogue Threat
A week after a "credible" threat to synagogues in New Jersey, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that antisemitism remains "a...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 4, 20222 min read
FBI Reports 'Broad Threat' To New Jersey Synagogues
The FBI has "received credible information of a broad threat to synagogues" in New Jersey. A tweet from the agency's Newark office...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 3, 20222 min read
DHS Advisory Panel Offers Help On Rise In Religious Violence
On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur this year at Temple Emanu-El, a landmark Reform synagogue near Manhattan’s Central Park, fliers were...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 13, 20221 min read
Ohio 'Incel' Admits Planning Hate Crime Against Women
An Ohio man who federal authorities say planned to "slaughter" nearly 3,000 women at a university in 2020 has pleaded guilty to an...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 6, 20222 min read
DOJ Picks Buffalo To Start National Program Against Hate Crime
Five months after the deadly mass shooting that killed 10 Black people and injured three others at a Buffalo, N.Y. supermarket, the...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 16, 20221 min read
White House Holds Summit On Hate Violence After QAnon Murder
The White House held a summit to address hate-motivated violence and to promote new efforts to keep Americans safe from domestic...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 8, 20221 min read
Police Probe Connections Between Killing of 4 Muslims in New Mexico
State and federal law-enforcement agencies in New Mexico are investigating four murders of Muslim men in Albuquerque as possibly related....
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 22, 20222 min read
Asian American Hate Incidents Continue to Surge, Study Finds
Forty years after Vincent Chin, a Chinese American man, was scapegoated and beaten to death by two white men in Detroit who were angered...
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Crime and Justice News
May 20, 20222 min read
False 'Great Replacement' Theory Cited in Antiminority Violence
The man accused of killing 10 people in Buffalo posted a document online that made references to a conspiracy theory known as the “great...
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Crime and Justice News
May 17, 20221 min read
Suspect Arrested for Dallas Koreatown Salon Shooting
Dallas police arrested a suspect in a shooting at a hair salon last week that wounded three women of Korean descent, an attack that...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 21, 20221 min read
As Hate Crime Rises, Most Police Departments Don't Report to FBI
An increasing number of law enforcement agencies are opting not to share statistics about hate crimes with the FBI as hate crimes are...
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