Sentences with phrase «of bias crimes»

The bulk of bias crimes committed over the past few months have targeted Jewish individuals and institutions, but the city, state and nation have also witnessed an uptick in hate incidents directed at people of the Islamic faith.

CNN: Temple shooting dredges up memories of long history of bias crimes against Sikhs Immediately after the September 11, 2001, terrorist acts, Sikhs came under attack.

Lakeside principal Kevin Laughlin will join with principals throughout the district in a program sponsored by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office of Biased Crimes.

And it is hard to imagine convicting someone of a bias crime without any evidence of bias.

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Our nation witnesses persistently high rates of hate crimes and bias - related incidents.

CNN: Hate crime numbers steady, FBI reports As New York authorities investigate what appears to be the nation's latest hate crime, the FBI's annual hate crime report, released Monday, shows no significant change in the level of crimes motivated by bias.

The new hate crime statistics show anti-Jewish bias remains far and away the most prevalent form of hate crime directed at a religious group.

As Michael Lesher, a prominent Orthodox critic of the shomrim puts it, «If the Nation of Islam were to set up a private force of Muslims, ostensibly to scour Harlem for «bias crimes,» would City Council members be heaping public money into its coffers?»

«This law will not only ensure that our state provides the necessary education and counseling to deter hate crimes, but will also make it very clear to the perpetrators that New York state does not and will not tolerate threats and violence that are motivated by any kind of bias,» Meng said.

But the governor is still pushing for changes to the state's hate crimes laws to protect more people after a rise in bias - related incidents after the election of Donald Trump.

It was introduced in recognition of National Crime Victims» Rights Week in April as a result of vicious hate crimes, including this year's bias attacks against five elderly Asian Americans in Manhattan and a Mexican man on Staten Island, and last year's vicious beating of gay College Point resident Jack Price.

In the days since the election, Cuomo has set up a hotline for New Yorkers to report incidents of bias and discrimination, as hate crimes have spiked since Nov. 8, when Donald Trump won the presidency.

Also, GENDA supporters yesterday released a letter to the Senate leaders from NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who noted that the New York City Human Rights Law was amended by Local Law 3 in 2002 to protect against bias in areas including public accommodations and no there was no «significant increase» in crime as a result of that change.

The NYPD revealed that the city has witnessed a 115 percent increase in bias crimes since Trump triumphed over Clinton last month, and also paid tribute to one of the victims — a Muslim cop who became the victim of threats while off - duty in Brooklyn.

However, handling of crime must be without ethnic bias.»

The governor also wants to expand the state's hate crimes laws to offer more protection to New Yorkers who are victims in the increased number of bias - related incidents since the election of Donald Trump as president.

Cuomo has named many other items he'd like to see addressed, including strengthening the state's hate crimes law in the wake of bias - related crimes since Donald Trump was elected president.

Democratic lawmakers yesterday called on the Republican - controlled House to follow the Senate in passing a hate - crime bill that targets gay and gender bias on the eve of the 31st Annual...

Cuomo recently launched the formation of a New York State Hate Crime Task Force with members from the New York State Police and the New York State Division of Human Rights, as well as a hate crime hotline — both apparent responses to the surge in bias attacks that followed the president's elecCrime Task Force with members from the New York State Police and the New York State Division of Human Rights, as well as a hate crime hotline — both apparent responses to the surge in bias attacks that followed the president's eleccrime hotline — both apparent responses to the surge in bias attacks that followed the president's election.

The dud attempt at intimidation was just the latest in what Cuomo called «an explosion in the number of hate crimes» across the state in the weeks and months after the election — with November and December witnessing a stunning 106 percent increase in the number of bias incidents.

According to FBI data, almost two - thirds of reported hate crimes arose from racial bias, making it by far the most typical form of bias - motivated crime in the U.S.

In the Woods, Tana French (2007) The book that finally broke my detective bias, In the Woods is one of the dreamiest crime novels I've ever read.

Tragically, breed - biased laws have caused the deaths of countless dogs whose only crime was to resemble a certain breed.

Dismantling crime operations around New Bordeaux often puts Lincoln face to face with factions like the Southern Union (Mafia III's version of the KKK), a racially biased police force and citizens who have no qualm dishing out verbal abuse or outwardly displaying their apprehension at your presence.

In retrospect this is a little ironic — for it is guilty of the very crime it accuses the «alarmists» of perpetrating — unsupported, biased views of climate change science which distort any kind of balanced analysis being undertaken by focusing exclusively on the suggested polarity of existing climate change debate — «scientists» v deniers.

Perhaps you could account for potential sources of bias, like over-policing, by controlling for things like the frequency of police visits and neighborhood demographics, but if such a genuinely thoughtful model resulted in a map that differed from the traditional distribution of «crimes» it wouldn't score very well.

We litigate on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct.

Few would be prepared to give Israel, Hamas, or Fatah (obviously biased actors) that kind of benefit of the doubt and that same benefit should not be afforded to a report authored in a large part by Chriten Chinken (another obviously bias actor) who had made up her mind vis - a-vis Israel's «war crimes» even before the operation had ended.

The Court recognized that these conditions, along with racism and bias, had contributed to the grossly disproportionate incidence of crime and incarceration amongst Aboriginal peoples, which it described as a «crisis» in the criminal justice system.

The court, which is responsible for investigating and prosecuting international crimes like genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, has been accused of being biased against African leaders.

[17] In his written material contained in the Defendants» motion record, Mr. Fancy argues that I ought to recuse myself from continuing to be the case management judge because of bias and he cites three main reasons: that my decision on the applications was wrong; that I failed to deal with the fact that MS has launched both applications and claims for the same relief; and that when I was a lawyer more than ten years ago, I was connected with a crime, specifically, a break and enter involving Mr. Fancy's client.

If a judicial candidate, before becoming judge, actively campaigns on partisan issues in violation of the Judicial Conduct Code, and if a candidate for judicial office pledges to be biased in favor of the prosecution by promising to be «tough on crime», then the respect for the judiciary will suffer.

That is very interesting how crime scenes can be recreated but you are right this skews the reality of the scene and creates it from only one point of view which to a juror may be creating a bias.

In efforts to minimize the arbitrariness of how courts define the worst of crimes, and to eliminate potential bias in capital and other criminal sentencing, the Depravity Scale research aims to distinguish the specific evidence — that is, the intents, actions, and attitudes of a given crime — that warrants the most severe sentences.

Although anchoring biases, difficulties in predicting the duration and degree of a crime victim's future emotional response, and poorly written jury instructions challenge juries, each of these impediments can be counteracted through thoughtful and conscientious systemic responses.

This type of crime refers to a bias that a perpetrator has against a person of a particular sexual orientation, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or other social group.

Also see, regarding bias in news reports of domestic violence murders, Rae Taylor, Slain and Slandered: A Content Analysis of the Portrayal of Femicide in Crime News, Homicide Studies, Vol.