British Hate Crimes Surge

mkpdavies · 08-06-2007, 12:49 PM

http://thedifferencemagazine.blogspo...mes-surge.html

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European governments have been "burying their heads in the sand for more than a decade" according to a new survey showing that the number of hate crimes has increased dramatically since the 1990s. The 2007 Hate Crime Survey, produced by US-based Human Rights First, reports:

In the United Kingdom, a dramatic surge of racist and religiously-motivated violence followed the July bombings of the London Underground and a city bus. The spike of violence diminished within weeks, but a high level of violence preceded the incidents and continues.
Contrary to what you might think, this increase in hate crimes was not only directed against Muslim or Asian communities. For instance, the report also notes that anti-semitic attacks rose by 31% to unprecedented levels in 2006, with attacks against individual Jews (as opposed to Jewish property) increasing by 37%, in part owing to a surge in anti-semitic incidents coinciding with the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Among its recommendations, Human Rights First is urging European governments to undertake parliamentary or other special inquiries into the problem of hate crimes to investigate ways of responding better to hate crimes and to seek creative ways of dealing with the roots of intolerance through education. That would be in line with today's report from the Conservative's Democracy Task Force (as commented on by Power to the People) calling for greater Parliamentary scrutiny. However, given the excessive proliferation of legislation we've suffered over the last decade and the Government's defeat over its controversial Racial and Religious Hatred Bill, I suspect Labour will be more inclined to latch onto the recommendation to enact new laws that expressly address and provide enhanced penalties for hate crimes.

Maybe they will get the message that if they treat people like animals, they will behave like them.

Nah, they will ramp it up another level instead.

C_steam · 08-06-2007, 06:54 PM

interesting in what it left out.

By IMPLICATION it is crimes of whites against minorities - but who knows if this is the case? Given london's mix, it may well have been blacks V asians - a not uncommon occurence,

IndependentObserver · 08-06-2007, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by C_steam

interesting in what it left out.

By IMPLICATION it is crimes of whites against minorities - but who knows if this is the case? Given london's mix, it may well have been blacks V asians - a not uncommon occurence,

A lot of the anti-semitic ones are Muslims against Jews.

Of course, the reason these figures keep rising is that more and more incidents are described as having a racial nature. Even an incident that is regarded as racial by an onlooker, but not by either alleged perpetrator or alleged victim, is counted as a racial incident - and I believe it still counts even if no criminal proceedings are brought, or if they are brought and the verdict is not guilty.

g hall · 08-06-2007, 07:58 PM

Now if only the "Justice system" could start looking for real crimes

John Carter · 08-06-2007, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by g hall

Now if only the "Justice system" could start looking for real crimes

What, like doing 33 in a 30 zone?

TonyG · 08-06-2007, 09:36 PM

That's not a crime! 34 maybe...

g hall · 08-06-2007, 10:38 PM

Nah 31 these days or if you really get lucky 28 :shock:
Speed camera in Suffolk flashed a coach doing 28 in a 30 good job he had a speed recording device

Robin · 13-06-2007, 07:48 PM

The authorities have encouraged people to report hate crimes. So hate crime figures have gone up.

tito · 13-06-2007, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by John Carter

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Originally Posted by g hall

Now if only the "Justice system" could start looking for real crimes

What, like doing 33 in a 30 zone?

I was under the impression that the grey area is 10% of the limit. Am I correct?

John Carter · 14-06-2007, 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by tito

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Originally Posted by John Carter

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Originally Posted by g hall

Now if only the "Justice system" could start looking for real crimes

What, like doing 33 in a 30 zone?

I was under the impression that the grey area is 10% of the limit. Am I correct?

IIRC, it used to be 10 mph over + 10%.

So, 44 in a 30 zone would be over. 88 in a 70 zone would be over.

Now it's a picometre per year over.

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g hall Uber Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: erewhon Posts: 5,638	Nah 31 these days or if you really get lucky 28 :shock: Speed camera in Suffolk flashed a coach doing 28 in a 30 good job he had a speed recording device __________________ "That government is best which governs least." "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries". "To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful." TANSTAAFL TANJ

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08-06-2007, 06:54 PM	#2 (permalink)
C_steam Super Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Paddling up 5hit creek..... Posts: 7,803	interesting in what it left out. By IMPLICATION it is crimes of whites against minorities - but who knows if this is the case? Given london's mix, it may well have been blacks V asians - a not uncommon occurence,

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Robin Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 934	The authorities have encouraged people to report hate crimes. So hate crime figures have gone up.