Prosecution of Civil Rights Cases and Hate Crimes Are Up

Originally posted at the America’s Voice blog.

Tom Perez, the Obama administration’s new Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights announced yesterday that , “the Civil Rights division is again open for business.” This is a welcome change for a department that had been widely criticized for politicizing the agency, lagging in effectiveness and suppressing legitimate cases over the last eight years.

On hate crimes, Perez announced that in the first year of the Obama administration, the department had dealt with more hate crime cases than in any year since 2001.

According to the Associated Press:

A total of 25 hate crime cases were filed for the budget year that ended in September, encompassing most of President Barack Obama’s first year in office and the last few months of the Bush administration. In 2001, there were 31 such cases filed. The number fell to a low of 12 in 2006, before starting to rise again, reaching 23 in 2008.

The public announcement of hate crime charges by the Justice Department this week against three police officers and two young men in Pennsylvania for racially motivated murders is a welcome sign of things to come.

Categories: Fighting Hate

Tags: civil rights, hate crimes

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Angel

Gutierrez is right to push the reform envelope , but he must go back to the drawing board. And while he’s there forget the prayer and vigils and sob stories and instead talk to people about this country’s economic progress. If interested parties , supporters , who ever want to see productive pragmatic and therefore humane immigration reform pass the house and senate , they need to break out the business case. Let’s see the numbers. Get a truly BIPARTISAN panel into a room with a team of statistical analysts tasked with creating an unbiased accounting of the coast and benefits of legalization. Mr. Gutierrez , yo quiero que pase esta reforma con todo mi corrazon pero esta propuesta nesesita un poco de Apollo de los republicanos, I want to see this bill past but we need to get real, this bill needs MAJOR support from atleast some house republican we are already the underdogs but we can’t and shouldn’t fight with both our hands tide behind our backs, find those republicans mr. Gutierrez PLEASE !! Thanks immigration supporter -Alexis-

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