This year, the Baptists passed a resolution opposing hate-crimes legislation, because such measures could thwart Baptists from preaching against homosexuality.
And those prosecutors who take race-hate crimes seriously often fail to make charges stick: it is frequently hard to find witnesses or persuade them to give evidence.
The FBI report showed 73 percent of the victims of race-based hate crimes were black.
While we would obviously want to see reductions in the incidence of all hate crime, we know that disability hate crimes have been significantly under-reported in the past.
Typically over those years, hate crimes against Jews have constituted 65-70% of all crimes with a religious basis.
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In 2011, a total of 44, 519 hate crimes were recorded - compared with 48, 127 in 2010.
Hate Crimes Prevention Act -- which criminalizes violence motivated by any person's actual or perceived disability, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity -- for their alleged actions against the disabled victims.
Sikh Dharma's official website -- Sikhnet.com -- reports 133 incidences of hate crimes and harassment since Tuesday.
In 2011-12 43, 748 hate crimes were recorded by the police, of which 35, 816 (82%) were race hate crimes and 1, 621 (4%) were religion hate crimes.
Mr. ARSALAN IFTIKHAR (National Legal Director, CAIR): Now, this ranged from everything from employment discrimination to the denial of public accommodation to airport profiling to anti-Muslim physical violence and hate crimes.
Since the enactment of Shepard-Byrd, the Department has provided hate crimes training to thousands of law enforcement officers and community activists around the country.
In 2006, the last year for which statistics are available, Hispanics were -- according to the FBI -- the No. 1 victim of hate crimes motivated by ethnicity or national origin, representing 62.8 percent of the victims of such crimes.
Greater Manchester Police named goths, punks, emos and metallers as people of an "alternative sub-culture identity" in their definition of hate crimes.
Two people have been arrested over an assault on an emo teenager - a week after police began recording attacks on subculture members as hate crimes.
Eventually, six white teens involved in that incident pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes for the attack on Anderson and for numerous other attacks on African-Americans.
Advocacy groups offer studies, but as DAY TO DAY's Mike Pesca reports, whether these statistical reports on hate and bias are about anti-Semitic or anti-Muslim or anti-gay crimes, they often have one thing in common: dubious methodology.
And it's no secret that progress has been incredibly difficult -- we can see that with the time and dedication it took to pass hate crimes legislation.
Born in Kentucky in a working class family, as a fifteen-year-old he was beaten so badly in what was one of the first registered hate crimes in the state that he needed a series of surgeries that required two years.
Kansas, a two-hour drive to the north, lists lesbian and gay people as specifically protected from hate crimes, but does not extend rights to transgender people.
Traditionally, right-wing extremism has been disorganized and impulsive, and it has often been manifested through localized hate crimes against immigrants.
In addition to murder charges stemming from the Ileto killing, he faced a dozen other charges including hate crimes violations stemming from the shooting rampage at the North Valley Jewish Community Center's day-care facility west of downtown Los Angeles.
As President Bill Clinton declares "an all-out assault on hate crime, " the FBI has plans to create a new unit specifically to investigate hate crimes.
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