Hate Crimes are a big problem in todays society. They have a big impact on the victim and also the community around the victim. Sometimes people even get killed in the involvement of a hate crime.
There is a sickness eating away at the strength of humankind and that sickness is Hate. Daily, throughout the world, men, women, and children are tortured, brutalized, and murdered simply because of their beliefs, their race, their physical state, or their sexuality, and equally guilty as the perpetrators are those among us who remain indifferent and/or silent. (stopthehate.net)
Therefore, hate crimes have a negative effect on society. They hurt the victim and the victims family a lot. The majority of hate crimes are against gays.
Unfortunately, the number of hate crimes is constantly increasing. The number of hate crimes has increased over the past decade and has had a negative impact on our society; in turn this has greatly affected many racial, religious, and sexual orientation groups.
A racial hate crime is an incident that is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person. (haltonwatch.co.uk).
Most of all racial hate crimes are committed against people of the African American descent.
In 1998, 65.5% of all national hate crimes were committed against people based on their race and/or ethnicity. 57.2% of those racial hate crimes were Anti-Black, 15.6% were Anti-White, 9.
5% were Anti-Hispanic, 5.8% were Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander, 5.6% were Anti-Multi-Racial, 5.4% were other race, and 1% were Anti-American Indian/ Alaskan Native. (asuc.org)
In 1999, there were a total of 7,876 hate crime incidents reported.
There were 4,295 crimes committed that were racial. More than half of all the hate crimes that were committed in 1999 were racial bias. (fbi.gov)
In 2000, there were 4,337 reported incidents of racial hate. 2,884 of those incidents were Anti-Black, 875 were Anti-White, 281 incidents were Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander, 240 were Anti-multi-racial group, and 57 incidents were Anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native. (vivisimo.
com)
In New York Sate, in Richmond Hill located in Queens, an elderly Sikh man was beaten with a baseball bat while two others were shot at with paintball guns. In Palos Hills, Illinois, two Muslim girls were beaten at Moraine Valley College because they were Muslim. Also on September 16, 2001 a man rammed his car into a grocery store owned by an Arab. Between September 11 and September 26, 2001, many Arab-Americans were singled out of airports and searched because they were of the Arab descent. Finally, a taxi-driver of Indian descent was accused of being a terrorist all because he was wearing a turban. (esrnational.
org)
A religious hate crime is a crime committed against a person based upon his or her religious beliefs. Sometimes people are victims of religious hate crimes just because of their ethnic origin. They may not even have the religious beliefs but the person or persons committing the crimes often assume the person has the beliefs just because of their origin.
In 1998, in the state of California, the religion hate crime incidents were very high. 77.9% of all incidents were Anti-Jewish, 7.
5% were Anti-other religion, 6.2% were Anti- Protestant, 5.8% of the incidents were Anti-Catholic, 1.8% Anti-Islamic, and 0.9% of religion hate crimes in the state of California were Anti-multi-religious group. (asuc.
org)
In 1998, the National religious hate crimes rate was not too high. 77.8% of he hate crime incidents were Anti-Jewish, 9% were Anti-other religious group, 4.4% were Anti-Catholic, 4.2% were Anti-Protestant, 2.9% of the incidents were Anti-Multi-Religious groups, 1.
5% were Anti-Islamic, and 0.1% were Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. (asuc.org)
In 2000, there were 1,472 religious hate crime incidents. 1,109 (75%) of them were Anti-Jewish, 172 (12%) were Anti-other religious group, 59 (4%) were Anti-protestant, 56 (4%) were Anti-Catholic, 44 (3%) incidents were Anti-multi-religious groups, 28 (2%) were Anti-Islamic, and 4 incidents reported were Anti-atheism/agnosticism/etc. (vivisomo.
com)
In 1998, Buford O. Furrow Jr. went on a shooting rampage in a Jewish Community Center. Furrow show six people leaving one postal carrier .
