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The federal government publishes an annual list of hate crime statistics as part of the FBI Uniform Crime Report. [67] According to the 2019 Uniform Crime Report, of hate crime offenders identifiable by race, 61.5% were White, 28% were Black, 7.8% were groups of individuals of varying races, 1.2% were American Indian or Alaska Natives, 1.1% ...
Hate crime laws in the United States are state and federal laws which are intended to protect people from hate crimes (also known as bias crimes). While state laws vary, current statutes permit federal prosecution of hate crimes committed on the basis of a person's characteristics of race, religion, ethnicity, disability, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity.
In 1990, Congress passed the Hate Crimes Statistics Act which allowed the government to count the incidence of hate crimes based on religion, race, national origin, and sexual orientation. However, a sentence was added onto the end of bill stating that federal funds should not be used to "promote or encourage homosexuality". [13]
The JNS reported in 2023 that America was experiencing the worst eruption of antisemitism in its 250 year history. [323] Jews were the religious group that faced the most hate crime in the United States in 2022 according to an FBI report. [324] FBI director said that 60% of religious based hate crimes were on Jews. [325]
The United States has passed some legislation to combat increasing violence against LGBTQ people. In the late 1990s, the Hate Crime Statistics Act (P.L. 101–275) was passed [17] to try to prevent further hate crimes and enhance criminal sentences for people who do commit them. While this act was passed more than 20 years ago, local police ...
The racist dog whistles used in Syed’s trial are something he’s seen many times before: when people of color are charged with a crime, race immediately becomes a factor. “This is a pattern ...
The 2011 hate-crime statistics show 46.9 percent were motivated by race, and 20.8 percent by sexual orientation. [130] In 2015, the Hate Crimes Statistics report identified 5,818 single-bias incidents involving 6,837 offenses, 7,121 victims, and 5,475 known offenders [111]
The federal cases prosecuted under the new law include a defendant sentenced to 23 years in prison for trafficking guns in gang-related shootings and another who got two years for running an ...