Defining a Hate Crime
A hate crime is a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias. For the purposes of collecting statistics, the FBI has defined a hate crime as a criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity. Hate itself is not a crime—and the FBI is mindful of protecting freedom of speech and other civil liberties.
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Hate Crimes | Federal Bureau of Investigation
Investigating hate crimes is the highest priority of the FBI’s civil rights program.
you should probably read that quickly before it gets changed like all the defense department website 404's
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