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Gender/Gender Identity Not In Statistics?[edit]

The statistics chart does not contain Gender or Gender Identity in its statistics. Is this for a reason or should we add those in? The FBI does keep record of that data. DebraHardy (talk) 21:31, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Give it time. Gender and Gender Identity, the new growing popularity as identifying as a gender not of your biological birth is new in the American experience. So new that though it hasn't been an issue long enough to develop data enough and cases enough to include into hate crime laws. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:243:202:5503:148F:2806:389D:F7A6 (talk) 04:26, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ulysses S. Grant[edit]

Does President Ulysses S. Grant and the Force Acts need to be in the article? There was also the Civil Rights Act of 1875. President Grant, the U.S. Military, and the Justice Department under Amos T. Akerman prosecuted and destroyed the Ku Klux Klan in 1871. Cmguy777 (talk) 15:37, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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hate speech[edit]

Not a heading, section, sentence, or even word about it or anything related to it with respect to language, verbal abuse, incitement, etc. JohndanR (talk) 15:39, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Federal prosecution of hate crimes[edit]

There is a template in this section that questions the relevance and accuracy of the citations. I have checked the citations and find no problem, so I suggest the template be removed.Michael E Nolan (talk) 19:46, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not "protected classes"[edit]

Hate crime laws (in USA) do not define any "protected classes" or "protected groups" or "protected characteristics". They forbid the perpetrator from using certain SELECTION CRITERIA for choosing his victim or victims. For example, hate crime laws don't say "you're not allowed to target Swedish immigrants"; they say "you're not allowed to choose your victim based on his country of origin". Thus, according to the law, Swedes, Danes, Australians, Ethopians, Chinese, Iranians, Israelis, everyone, all are supposed to be equally protected from being targeted based on national origin or the other forbidden criteria. (I'm not saying everyone actually does get equal protection, but if someone doesn't get equal protection, it's because of judges or law-enforcement failing in their duty, not because of the law.) The perpetrator's victim-selection criterion, such as race, religion, national origin, gender, etc., not the victim's membership in any particular group or class, is what makes the crime a hate crime.

The term "protected class" suggests that "hate-crime laws" might somehow give special protections to certain people, and that is not the case. So I'm removing the phrase "protected groups" and "protected classes" from the lead. I'm not entering a source, because I'm not adding anything. (Do we need to cite a reference in order to REMOVE text from an article??? My source is the blog run by the great constitutional-law-professor Eugene Volokh.)

By all means, if you think I'm wrong, say so and let's find some consensus. I won't hate you.

HandsomeMrToad (talk) 01:44, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Crimes against caucasians section needs balancing[edit]

After the text “P. J. Henry and Felicia Pratto” there are huge blocks of paraphrasing text without citation, and in stark disproportion to the POVs above it. So I am adding an “unbalanced” tag in hopes that this can eventually be trimmed down, balanced, and use more direct quotes from experts. RachaelAMS (talk) 23:55, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References needed for section on Campus Hate Crimes Right-to-Know Act of 1997[edit]

The section on the Campus Hate Crimes Right-to-Know Act attributes this to the year 1997, however each and every sentence (or claim) is not referenced.

Instead, I would suggest seeing the The Student Right-to-Know Act, passed by Congress in 1990, as well as the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act or Clery Act, which requires all colleges and universities that participate in federal financial aid programs to keep and disclose information about crime on and near their respective campuses. This does indeed already have a Wikipedia page.