HATE CRIMES
Roderick T. Casey II
Post University
09 May 2018
A hate crime in defined as any of various crimes such as assault defacement of property When motivated by hostility to the victim as a member of a group such as one based on color, creed, gender or sexual orientation. (Hate Crimes). Sadly, these crimes have occurred in communities throughout the United States for centuries. Victims have been seriously hurt, left with permanent disabilities and some killed. Not only are the victims affected by this act their families are affected. At times it may be hard to endure the emotional toll and stress they face as they attempt to understand why their love one was targeted and move on with their lives. In this paper, I will address the Hate crimes, the major groups who are targets, and recent incident that have occurred in the United States. Hate Crimes are significant today due to the increase in crimes carried out in the United States with most of the motivated by bias against Jews, Muslims, African Americans and LGBT people according to the FBI (FBI, 2018). Traditionally, FBI investigations of hate crimes were limited to crimes where criminals acted based on bias against race, color, religion and national origin. In addition investigations we restricted to those wherein victims was engaged in federally protected activity. With the enactment of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act of 2009, the FBI became authorized to investigate crime without prohibition. Which also expanded the role of the FBI to investigate hate crimes against those biases of perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or gender. (FBI, 2018) there were more than 6100 reported incidents of hate crimes in 2016 increasing of more than up from more than 5,800 the year before. …show more content…
(Berman, 2017). That was an increase in hate crimes for the second year with most of the victims targeted due to race and ethnicity. The number of hate crimes targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people also increased. A few major hate crimes of recent are but not limited to the Charleston Church Massacre where Dylan Roof, a white male and known white supremist attend a church bible study of African Americans and opened fire upon them during prayer. There were twelve victims, nine of which were killed during his attack. Roof was convicted of 33 federal hate crime and murder charges. The state of South Carolina charged him with nine counts of murder. The Roof massacre was a shocking throwback to our countries racial past. Another hate crime that shook the country was the Orlando Massacre. On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen entered Pulse night club a gay night in Orlando, walked to the middle …show more content…
It was a time in America when being gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender was forbidden but those days are beyond us. The times have changed to where it is no longer a secret, for some of the country it has accepted that they are human beings and are promised to the same rights as everyone else. Unfortunately, everyone doesn’t feel the same and due to hate crimes laws varying from state to state make it difficult to understand and accept as citizens that the punishment is more lenient than others. As this epidemic continues to grow us as Americans are really looking for ways to combat hate crimes and attempt to prevent hate crimes from
Roderick T. Casey II
Post University
09 May 2018
A hate crime in defined as any of various crimes such as assault defacement of property When motivated by hostility to the victim as a member of a group such as one based on color, creed, gender or sexual orientation. (Hate Crimes). Sadly, these crimes have occurred in communities throughout the United States for centuries. Victims have been seriously hurt, left with permanent disabilities and some killed. Not only are the victims affected by this act their families are affected. At times it may be hard to endure the emotional toll and stress they face as they attempt to understand why their love one was targeted and move on with their lives. In this paper, I will address the Hate crimes, the major groups who are targets, and recent incident that have occurred in the United States. Hate Crimes are significant today due to the increase in crimes carried out in the United States with most of the motivated by bias against Jews, Muslims, African Americans and LGBT people according to the FBI (FBI, 2018). Traditionally, FBI investigations of hate crimes were limited to crimes where criminals acted based on bias against race, color, religion and national origin. In addition investigations we restricted to those wherein victims was engaged in federally protected activity. With the enactment of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act of 2009, the FBI became authorized to investigate crime without prohibition. Which also expanded the role of the FBI to investigate hate crimes against those biases of perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or gender. (FBI, 2018) there were more than 6100 reported incidents of hate crimes in 2016 increasing of more than up from more than 5,800 the year before. …show more content…
(Berman, 2017). That was an increase in hate crimes for the second year with most of the victims targeted due to race and ethnicity. The number of hate crimes targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people also increased. A few major hate crimes of recent are but not limited to the Charleston Church Massacre where Dylan Roof, a white male and known white supremist attend a church bible study of African Americans and opened fire upon them during prayer. There were twelve victims, nine of which were killed during his attack. Roof was convicted of 33 federal hate crime and murder charges. The state of South Carolina charged him with nine counts of murder. The Roof massacre was a shocking throwback to our countries racial past. Another hate crime that shook the country was the Orlando Massacre. On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen entered Pulse night club a gay night in Orlando, walked to the middle …show more content…
It was a time in America when being gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender was forbidden but those days are beyond us. The times have changed to where it is no longer a secret, for some of the country it has accepted that they are human beings and are promised to the same rights as everyone else. Unfortunately, everyone doesn’t feel the same and due to hate crimes laws varying from state to state make it difficult to understand and accept as citizens that the punishment is more lenient than others. As this epidemic continues to grow us as Americans are really looking for ways to combat hate crimes and attempt to prevent hate crimes from