Combating+hate+crimes

= Why Are Hate Crimes Happening? = ====Hate crimes can be serious situation only if it’s intended to harm or make fun of someone else’s race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or other minority group status. This is also referred to as bias crimes. Since the 1980’s the problems we have had with hate crimes have increased. August 2010 report on hate crimes against the homeless has outnumbered all other categories of hate crimes combined. Last year there were 43 murders, and over the past decade there has been 1,000 documented attacks including 300 homicides. These numbers are likely have been low due to under reporting. Attacks have included things as homeless with gasoline and setting on fire, to beating with baseball bats. It should be very important that homelessness is added to the federal hate crimes legislation. Only some states now include homelessness in their state legislation because of the hate crimes on them, but the homeless need to be protected on a national level just like everyone else is. We should all stand for the ones that can’t for themselves. ====

= Why Does It Happen? = ====Some people just like to make of other people and some others think that they are better than everyone else so they think they can treat them like there nobody.Most hate crimes can be targeted at people because of their race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation or disability. These people were born like that and everyone is the same no one is different than anyone else because maybe they are a different race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation or disability. Either way everyone is the same and no one is special or even better than someone else. So stop hate crimes because your not doing anything but hurting that person feeling so stop.==== = Who does it affect? =

====Hate crimes would only affect people with a different race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation or disability would be my guess but it could also affect anyone and everyone and its a serious situation.====

**Lesbian & Gays are the Third-Highest Targeted Group for Hate Crimes* **
Category || 1997 Reported Incidents || Percentage ||
 * Total || 8,049 || % ||
 * Race || 4,710 || 58.5% ||
 * Religion || 1,385 || 17.2% ||
 * Sexual Orientation || 1,102 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13.7% ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ethnicity/National Origin || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">836 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10.4% ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Disability || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">12 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">0.15% ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Multiple Bias Incidents || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">0.05% ||

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Percentage of Hate Crimes Based on Sexual Orientation, 1991-1997 <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Year || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1991 ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1992 ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1993 ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1994 ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1995 ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1996 ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1997 ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reported Hate Crimes Against Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals - 1997
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Total Hate Crime Incidents Reported || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">4,588 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">6,623 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">7,587 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">5,932 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">7,947 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">8,759 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">8,049 ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hate crimes based on sexual orientation || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">--- || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">767 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">860 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">685 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">1,019 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">1,016 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">1,102 ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Percentage of crimes based on sexual orientation || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">8.9% || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">11.6% || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">11.3% || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">11.5% || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">12.8% || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">11.6% || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">13.7% ||

= Ways to Stop Hate Crimes! =
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sexual Orientation || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Incidents || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Offenses || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Victims || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Known Offenders ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Total || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">1,102 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">1,375 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">1,401 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">1,315 ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anti-Male Homosexual || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">760 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">912 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">927 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">1,032 ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anti-Female Homosexual || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">188 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">229 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">236 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">158 ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anti-Homosexual || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">133 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">229 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">236 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">158 ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anti-Hetrosexual || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">12 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">14 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">14 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">14 ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anti-Bisexual || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">9 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">10 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">10 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">8 ||

#10 Reevaluate and Look to the Future
<span style="color: #00d6f0; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">﻿Some coping skills include:Talking to an adult or parent Talking to the school counselorTalking to a friend Go to churchFind a club to join or a sport you like to play

= Romeo and Juliet =

**//Act III, Scene i//, line 63**
==**Romeo**- **''I do protest I never injured thee, but love thee better then thou canst devise till thou shalt know the reason of my love; and so, good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as mine own, be satisfied."**==

//Act III, Scene i, line 65//
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