Since 1999, More Than A Thousand Homeless People Have Been Victims Of Violent Hate Crimes

[NYC_SKP]

1. Oh, I'll bet that number is off by a factor of ten or more.

No time to look it up, found one link, and these are just numbers they collected, not all events reported nationwide and not including unreported cases, naturally:

Cases in 2010
In 2010, the National Coalition for the Homeless compiled a total of one hundred thirteen homeless victims of violence who were attacked by non-homeless perpetrators. Of the one hundred thirteen victims, eighty-nine were not fatally injured, while twenty-four of the victims lost their lives. Over the past twelve years, one in four violent attacks on homeless individuals resulted in death, and in 2010, more than one in every five resulted in death.

Examples of 2010 headlines include:
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Man Uses Concrete Slab to Bludgeon Homeless Man
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Homeless Man Set on Fire While Sleeping
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Bottles Filled with Acid Thrown at the Homeless Community
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Homeless Woman Beaten with Pistol after Refusing Sex
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Homeless Man Beaten, Tied to Bumper of Car and Dragged Down Road

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/projects/hatecrimes.html

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