Hate Crimes Up in 2008, FBI Says
Earl Evleth
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Hate Crimes Up in 2008, FBI Says
The recently enacted hate crimes legislation is named for Matthew Shepard,
pictured here in an undated photo. Shepard was a gay University of Wyoming
college student who was beaten and left for dead in a Wyoming pasture near
Laramie, Wyo., on Oct. 7, 1998. The legislation was signed by President
(CBS)� Hate crimes rose slightly in 2008, with bias-motivated attacks based
on race, religion and sexual orientation all increasing, according to new
data released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Overall, there were 7,783 criminal incidents reported last year. Those
incidents involved 9,168 offenses. In 2007, there were 7,624 criminal
incidents involving 9,006 offenses reported.
Of the criminal incidents, all but three were motivated by a single bias -
51.3 percent by race; 19.5 percent by religion, 16.7 by sexual orientation;
11.5 percent by ethnicity or national origin; 1 percent by disability.
Within the racial bias incidents, 72.6 percent were against blacks; 17.3
against whites.
Gay men were the victims in most of the sexual orientation-bias attacks -
58.6 percent.
Anti-Jewish bias accounted for 65.7 percent of the religious bias attacks;
7.7 percent of the attacks were against Muslims.
Read the full report
Crimes against people accounted for 5,542 - 48.8 percent intimidation; 32.1
percent simple assaults; 18.5 aggravated assault. There were seven murders.
There were 3,608 hate crimes against property - 83.3 percent were acts of
destruction or vandalism; 17.7 percent involved theft.
The majority of 6,927 know hate crimes offenders were white - 61.1 percent,
compared with 20.2 percent who were black. The offenders' race was unknown
in 11 percent. The remaining offenders were other races.
Hate crimes most frequently occurred in or near homes - 31.9 percent;
highways, roads, alleys or streets accounted for 17.4 percent; schools
accounted for 11.7 percent; parking lots accounted for 6.1 percent; places
of worship accounted for 6.1 percent.
Izzy Mandelbaum
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> Hate Crimes Up in 2008, FBI Says
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Really?
Since when did having a beer on the ride home become a hate crime?
At the rate they are going, pretty soon, I'd imagine.
Since that's the only crime I am guilty of committing, once again,
you're babbling...
Earl Evleth
a26d24b9-63da-441c...@k9g2000vbl.googlegroups.com, "Izzy
Mandelbaum" <texa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hate Crimes Up in 2008, FBI Says
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> <snip>
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> Really?
> Since when did having a beer on the ride home become a hate crime?
> At the rate they are going, pretty soon, I'd imagine.
> Since that's the only crime I am guilty of committing, once again,
> you're babbling...
And the FBI?
Runge17
"Izzy Mandelbaum" <texa...@hotmail.com> a �crit dans le message de
news:a26d24b9-63da-441c...@k9g2000vbl.googlegroups.com...
Gregory Morrow
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Greg