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Is that a hate crime?If the Chicago victim had been black, why should the penalties be less?
The idea of creating specially protected classes is absurd.
Violence is bad, but racial violence is a bit worse. When a crime is deemed a hate crime, the judge is required to hand down the maximum sentence, which I'm totally fine with. I say keep hate crime laws, as long they are applied to all races. The problem is its super fucking rare to see anyone get charged with a hate crime if they aren't white.
Even in this latest case of kidnap/torture, the Chicago police are already saying he was attacked for being special needs. In the video they say "fuck white people" and never once mention "special needs". It appears that hate crimes are almost exclusively for white offenders.
WASHINGTON -- On Monday, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program released Hate Crime Statistics, 2016, its latest annual compilation of bias-motivated incidents reported throughout the U.S. The newest report—which provides information about the offenses, victims, offenders, and locations of hate crimes—reveals that for 2016, law enforcement agencies reported 6,121 criminal incidents that were motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, or gender identity.
The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program released Hate Crime Statistics, 2016, its latest annual compilation of bias-motivated incidents reported throughout the U.S.
As part of the 2016 report, participants in UCR’s Hate Crime Statistics Program included 15,254 law enforcement agencies. These agencies provided from one to 12 months’ worth of data about bias-motivated crime, and of those agencies, 1,776 reported one or more incidents. The remaining agencies reported no hate crimes occurred within their jurisdictions. Of the 6,121 criminal incidents reported, 6,063 were single-bias incidents (there were also 58 multiple-bias incidents). Of the single-bias incidents:
* 57.5 percent were motivated by a race, ethnicity or ancestry bias;
* 21.0 percent were motivated by a religious bias;
* 17.7 percent were motivated by a sexual orientation bias;
The remaining incidents were motivated by a gender identity, disability, or gender bias. Where were these crimes committed? The two largest percentages of hate crime incidents took place in or near residences (27.3 percent) and on or near some type of roadway (18.4 percent). The remaining incidents were perpetrated at a variety of other locations, including schools and houses of worship, commercial and government buildings, restaurants and nightclubs, parking lots and garages, playgrounds and parks, and even medical facilities. In short, hate crimes can and do happen just about anywhere.
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