WOW! Surprising this isn’t a kiss-up to the mosems here. Do you see WHO is the #1 victims??? JEWS!!! Christians are not far behind and moslems..way down on the national list…so STFU you whiney, anti-American cultist of Mo!
Jon Hand http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20101231/NEWS01/12310337/1003
Hate crimes reported by police agencies increased about 14 percent statewide from 2008 to 2009, but dropped in Monroe County during that period from 25 reported incidents to 16, a state Division of Criminal Justice Services report shows.
The report, released Thursday, shows hate crimes in 2009 most often targeted Jews, black people, gay males and Hispanics and most involved destruction, damage and vandalism or intimidation.
“A hate crime is an offense not only against a specific individual, but against an entire community,” Sean M. Byrne, acting commissioner of the division, said in a statement. “In order to combat this form of domestic terrorism, we first need to know the extent of the problem. This report provides information and data that will help lawmakers and law enforcement formulate policies and strategies.”
Of the 16 incidents reported to the division by six agencies in Monroe County in 2009, the Rochester Police Department reported six, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office reported four, Brighton and East Rochester each reported two, and Greece and Ogden each reported one.
Chris Delaney, the Rochester Police Department’s director of business intelligence, said two additional hate crime cases should have been reported to DCJS to bring the city’s total to eight.
Regardless, he said, the numbers are low enough, and the habits of officers in identifying hate crimes vary widely enough, that it is difficult to identify significant trends.
“Statistically, it’s a rare event to begin with, so I don’t know if you can read too much into the numbers,” he said. “I don’t know if they get at the real story very well.”
New York City’s five counties — Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens and Richmond — accounted for 40 percent of all reported hate crimes last year.
The federal hate crime law was inspired by the 1998 deaths of James Byrd Jr. and Matthew Sheppard. Byrd, who was black, was killed by three white men who tied him to the back of a pickup and dragged him along a rural Texas road. Byrd is believed to have been targeted because of his race.
Sheppard was beaten to death three months later in Wyoming by two men. His death is thought to have been an act of homophobic violence.
State law says people are guilty of hate crimes when they intentionally commit specified crimes, such as murder, assault, rape, robbery or larceny, “because of a belief or perception regarding the race, color, national origin, ancestry, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation of a person.”
Two men were charged with misdemeanor menacing as a hate crime in January 2009, in Macedon, Wayne County, when they were accused of beating an African-American man who asked them to turn down their radio. Police in Macedon said the defendants were affiliated with the Aryan brotherhood.
Macedon Town Court officials on Thursday said Stephen R. Pattison, then 19, of East Rochester pleaded guilty a few months after the attack to third-degree menacing as a hate crime and fourth-degree criminal mischief, both misdemeanors, and was sentenced to three years probation.
His co-defendant, Christopher A. Stringer, then 20, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal mischief and third-degree menacing and was sentenced to 11 months in county jail. It was unknown why the hate crime was removed from Stringer’s charge.
A crime against a minority, a religious institution or a club with a particular affiliation is not enough to warrant the hate crime tag.
In a local case this year in which five teenagers were charged with harassing members of the World Sufi Foundation Mosque in Orleans County, the teens were accused of driving past the mosque while services were being held and squealing tires, honking horns and yelling obscenities on two separate occasions. On one occasion, one of the teens was accused of discharging a shotgun.
The five were charged with misdemeanor first-degree harassment and some were charged with other crimes, but the hate crime tag was not placed on the charges because members of the mosque did not believe the teens had the intent of making a hate crime. In other cases, police charge a defendant with a hate crime, but the tag is removed as part of a plea arrangement.
By the numbers
Hate crimes reported in Monroe County (2008/2009): 25/16. Hate crimes reported statewide (2008/2009): 599/683. Property hate crimes motivated by religion: 324. Hate crime incidents involving arrests: 179. Motivation of hate crimes against persons (percent): race (46); sexual orientation (27); religion (24).
To learn more
The entire report is posted on the home page of the Division of Criminal Justice Services’ website, www.criminaljustice.state.ny.us , under the “What’s New” section.
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