Hate Crimes in a sentence

The new Act provides for the prevention of hate crimes and hate speech, effective enforcement measures and the gathering and recording of data on hate crimes and hate speech.

The Jabara-Heyer No Hate Act would result in grants for states to establish hate crime reporting hotlines, and authorize funding for state and local law enforcement to develop policies on identifying, investigating and reporting hate crimes.

According to that with data collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2019, hate crimes based on sexual orientation represent 16.7% of all hate crimes.

For the first six months of the year, based on these monthly reports, over 59% of the hate crimes in New York City have been anti-Jewish hate crimes – 223 out of 377.

In Toronto, hate-motivated crimes have been on the rise, with police previously saying that hate crimes in the city are up nearly 55 per cent from last year.

Advocates point out a significant gap in the FBI's data which came to light because two of the most notorious hate crimes in recent years were never reported to the government, even though they were prosecuted as hate crimes.

The FBI came out with its annual hate crimes report which indicated that hate crimes reported to the FBI increased by about 17 percent last year compared to 2016.

The UCR focuses its data collection on violent crimes, hate crimes, and property crimes.

Although recorded hate crimes targeting someone because of their sexual orientation did drop slightly in the last year, they're the second highest after race-related hate offences.

In August, the nonpartisan Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism released the final report supervised by Levin, showing large increases in reported hate crimes against the community in 42 major American cities.

South Carolina cities and towns are passing hate-crime ordinances in hopes it will help South Carolina lawmakers realize the hate crimes law needs to be passed.

The campaign was headed by LA vs Hate, a coalition the LA County Commission of Human Relations launched in August at the request of the Board of Supervisors as a response to an increase in hate crimes across the county.

The committee formed in light of the hate crimes and hate incidents on campus.

The reports will be used by Love Not Hate to monitor hate crimes and understand where they happen, adding to an evidence base that can be used to tackle the scourge through intervention and awareness programmes, and lobbying of government.

Hate crimes rose by 14 per cent, reports of sex crimes including rape rose by 29 per cent and domestic abuse cases identified as high-risk surged by 48 per cent.

Japneet Singh told CBS News that hate crimes against Sikhs are rising, but statistics don’t reflect them as some crimes aren’t reported.

According to FBI Director Christopher Wray, as of December 5, 2023, there had been a 60% year-over-year increase in reported hate crimes for the period after October 7. Most of that increase was driven by crimes against Jews.

In almost half of religion aggravated hate crimes, “the perpetrator showed prejudice towards the Catholic community” (47%), according to a Police Scotland which reviewed recorded crimes in 2020-21.

Karen Graves, a city spokesperson, said she was not aware of recent hate crimes targeting Haitian residents but that some had been victims of "crimes of opportunity," such as property theft.

The state’s hate crimes law imposes higher penalties for crimes motivated by certain types of bias.