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July 12th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer A total of 1,864 suspects in matters involving violations of federal hate crime statutes were investigated by U.S. attorneys during the fiscal years 2005 to 2019, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) said in a report published last...
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July 1st, 2021category: News Reports
By Aara Ramesh On Wednesday, June 30, California’s Department of Justice (DOJ) released a recently compiled report on hate crime events and offenses throughout the state in 2020, alongside a series of recommendations, resources, and guidelines directed at the public and at...
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June 17th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer Earlier this year we discussed pending legislation in an article titled, “Pending Hate Crime Legislation in Front of Congress,” published April 22, and a February 4 article titled, “More Legal Firepower Proposed in Battle Against Child Abuse.” More has...
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June 16th, 2021category: News Reports
By Aara Ramesh On Tuesday, June 15, the White House published the first-ever “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism,” an all-government framework devised to combat what President Joe Biden deemed “the most urgent terrorism threat the United States faces today.” The National...
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June 9th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind Sometime between Friday night and Monday morning over this weekend, the Chabad on River synagogue was vandalized with a swastika and an antisemitic slur. A congregant found the hate symbols at 8 a.m. Monday, June 7, when they arrived early...
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May 19th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer The US House of Representatives on Tuesday, May 18, passed the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act in a 364–62 vote, sending it to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. The initiative to pass the bill was led...
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April 22nd, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer As of April, 2021, Congress is considering several different pieces of legislation which address hate crimes. Many of them focus on hate crimes directly. Others have a different focus, but also take on the subject of hate crimes. Here...
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April 19th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind We are just about five months away from the 20th anniversary of the deadly 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Neither the United States, nor the rest of the world, is likely to forget...
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February 22nd, 2021category: Feature Stories
By Deepti Govind Hate crime in the U.S. reached its highest level in more than a decade in 2019, an FBI report released in November 2020 showed. There were 7,314 hate crime incidents in 2019, up from 7,120 the year before — and...
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February 19th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Anand Vasu An 84-year-old man from Thailand died from his injuries on Jan. 30 in San Francisco, after being attacked on his morning walk two days prior. Soon after, on Jan. 31, a 91-year-old was injured after being violently shoved to...
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September 23rd, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Ronald Wyatt, 22, pleaded guilty to intentionally threatening physical harm to a female victim, and to obstructing her religious freedom. Wyatt admitted that he targeted his African-American victim because of her race in his plea agreement, the US...