HATE CRIMES 1. I feel that any time a person or group is physically assaulted there is a major problem in existence. That is exactly what a hate crime is, assault towards another person or persons and according to the FBI the number of hate crimes towards authorities “increased from 5,852 in 1994 to 8,759 in 1996 (handout).” When you start committing crimes against those that are supposed to protect us from these crimes it becomes much more difficult to …showed first 75 words of 743 total…

…showed last 75 words of 743 total…resembles a hate crime because those who commit these crimes walk away much too easy for what they have done. If we show people by legal physical action that we are not going to be pushed around the amount of crimes will drastically decrease. Granted there is nothing that will completely stop these crimes and these ideas may not even help the issue that much but I feel they will do some amount of good.