This evidence has been corroborated by police and community groups documenting racially motivated crime. Hate groups such as the Aryan Nations, Heritage Front, Church of the Creator, Ku Klux Klan, Northern Foundation and the Mountain Church are all actively recruiting young people in Canada today. While not all skinheads are racist, many in Canada are, and show a propensity towards violence. Since 1990, at least 24 racially or sexually motivated murders have been committed by skinheades in North America. Hate groups concentrate their recruiting efforts primarily in high schools and to some extent in colleges and universities.
Young people are more likely to accept at face value the racist ideology of the hatemonger.
They are often naive and easily brainwashed by racist propaganda because they don't have the experience or facts at hand to refute the lies and myths being fed to them. Lonely, marignalized youth seeking a sense of identity and belonging are both the most attractive targets for racists and their most useful tools once recruited. Emotionally vulnerable or angry young people are easily indoctrinated by hatemongers and are often convinced to engage in violence and to commit criminal acts to prove themselves by following orders. Eager to be accepted, young recruits don't recognize the abuse of power by the leaders and can be used to intimidate opponents and to recruit other new members. Through rituals, regalia and impressive ceremony, individual youth are easily impressed and recruited, often due to their lack of identifiable future, and are catapulted into an environment of violence and hatred.