### activity | crime:

Hate crime
* Many hate crimes have nothing to do with murder.
* Most hate crimes involve property damage, graffiti, and random acts of violence.
* Most hate crimes occur as areas undergo rapid integration
  - on residential property.
  * is sometimes a way to frighten other people who belong to the same group. This intimidation can be seen as terrorism when it is carried out on a large scale
* affect everybody.
* are a corrosive blot on the fabric of humanity
  - national disgrace
  - serious problem all over the world
  - about sending a message
  - also more likely to occur in what has been termed as edge cities
  - as pervasive as they are perverse
* are attacks on communities
  - our very culture
* are different from ordinary crimes
  - than crimes generally
* are especially dehumanizing
  - destructive because they affect entire communities
  - evil
  - fundamentally different than other crimes
  - generally more prevalent during times of economic and political uncertainty
  - illegal
  - individual acts
  - inhuman
  - like terrorism
  - modern-day lynchings that afflict communities throughout the nation
* are more lethal than other kinds of attacks
  - likely than other criminal activity to be committed by groups of perpetrators
* are more than assault on people, they are assaults on the very idea of America
  - mere acts of violence
  - violent than crimes generally
* are often the most vicious, and the most violent of crimes
  - youth crimes committed by kids caught up in the excitement of the crowd
  - on the increase against whites
  - political in nature and are intended to subvert government
  - preventable
  - serious, well-documented problems that remain inadequately recognized
  - terrorism, meant to send fear and intimidation to that group
  - terrorist acts
* are the most extreme expression of bigotry and prejudice
  - tip of the iceberg, the most violent end of the spectrum of discrimination
  - very serious and traumatic incidents
* can be more vicious because they target an entire community
  - exacerbate tensions, and trigger larger community-wide conflicts and disturbances
  - happen anytime, anywhere
  - increase the tension within a community
* come out of anger misplaced and displaced.
* continue to occur at alarming rates
  - take a terrible toll on our society
* criminal act directed at an individual or their property.
* directed at gay men and lesbians continue to be widespread.
* divide communities and engender a climate of fear and mistrust
  - neighborhoods and breed a sense of mistrust and fear within communities
* do more than injure an individual.
* encompasses homophobic incidents and racist incidents.
* erode our values, beliefs and identities and tear at the fabric of our society.
* grow in silence.
* has no place in civilized society.
* have a chilling effect on every woman s life
  - long history in the United States
* increase the potential to ignite community disorder.
* involve violence, property damage, or intimidation motivated by intolerance and bigotry.
* is an issue which causes misery
  - intended to intimidate all other people who belong to the same group as the victim
* leave victims and targeted groups feeling alienated, helpless, suspicious, and fearful.
* mirror the identity of one's own group.
* occur all over the world
  - because of stupidity
  - far to often, although they are ignored by the media
  - nationwide but many states have laws that are insufficient or non-existent
* permeate every segment of our society, campuses or elsewhere.
* perpetuate a climate of fear amongst targeted groups.
* polarize communities and damage the very fabric of our society.
* reflect a cancer of the soul and have no place in our society.
* rend the fabric of society and fragment communities.
* send shockwaves through our communities, cultivating fear and intolerance.
* serve to threaten and intimidate entire communities.
* take many forms and affect many different kinds of victims
  - such forms as assault, vandalism, harassment and murder
* threaten a community's health.
* vary from graffiti on walls in graveyards to murder, arson and assault.