Racial Hate Crimes Surge 39% in Phoenix

EFerrari

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Racial Hate Crimes Surge 39% in Phoenix

Source: The Arizona Republic

by JJ Hensley - Nov. 17, 2011 12:00 AM

The number of racially motivated hate crimes in Phoenix rose nearly 40 percent from 2009 to 2010, mirroring other upswings around the country.

Hate crimes in Phoenix classified by race rose from 36 to 50, an increase that experts who track Valley incidents attribute to heightened tensions following Senate Bill 1070, though hate crimes against Hispanics dipped.

Criminologists say the overall increase in hate crimes can be attributed to outreach efforts that encourage members of minority communities to report such crimes and an increasing awareness among police officers to recognize hate crimes.

The FBI, which released the data earlier this week, classifies hate crimes in five categories that cover race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity and disability. Nearly every state, including Arizona, has a hate-crime law that allows the motivation behind the crime to be considered as a factor when it comes to sentencing, in addition to federal statutes that target hate crime

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2011/11/16/20111116phoenix-racial-hate-crimes-surge.html#ixzz1e9huaSjb

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Sat Nov-19-11 08:59 AM
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1. And it can't possibly have anything at all to do with the right wing of AZ politics...

demagoguing the issue of illegal immigration and fanning the flames of prejudice and ethnic tension, right?

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Sat Nov-19-11 09:08 AM
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2. Holiday coming up. Hate your neighbor week.

Those better than thou right wingers started this whole thing.

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DreamSmoker

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Sat Nov-19-11 12:21 PM
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3. Justifiable Discrimination

This is what you get when in America you slice, dice, separate and prosecute...
This is the Tactics used by the GOP today..
Has not changed since Reagan...

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EFerrari

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Sat Nov-19-11 02:40 PM
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7. Yeah, these laws are permission slips for hate crimes.

Too bad the DoJ is such a trainwreck.

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SoapBox

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Sat Nov-19-11 12:42 PM
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4. Best I can say is...DUH!!!!

When it is The State of Hate...what can you expect.

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Sat Nov-19-11 01:56 PM
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5. AZ is not "the state of hate"

It's not nearly as red as other red states are. It's just that, as always, the RW Christians/Mormons are so loud and violent, that they're more visible than the normal people.

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AverageJoe90

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Sat Nov-19-11 02:07 PM
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6. Yep. Frankly, every red states has that problem. nt

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