Hate Crimes Essay

Imagine you are a victim of a hate crime, how would you hold your case? Now what if you were a victim in general, but your case is dealt with less than a victim of a hate crime. How would you feel? Would you feel treated equally or unfairly? A hate crime is a crime, that’s motives could be prejudice, bias, or on the basis of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or similar topics. Prejudice means a pre believed opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. Bias means prejudice in favor of a specific person, topic, or thing, just to be unfair. You may cluster these things into they all need to be stopped. And yes that is true, but doesn’t all crime need to be stopped? People who commit hate crimes should be punished the same

According to “Hate Crimes in America” Hate groups are less effective in sowing seeds of social unrest and conflict when their activities (including internet hate sites) are brought to light." There, they are saying that groups of people who commit hatred acts and are included with bias, causing “social unrest”. Another source states that hate crimes punishments are harsher because usually crimes are towards individuals, hate crimes are against a “segment of the population”(source) Their point is valid, hate crimes are towards say a race or a gender, or some other factor. Hate crimes can vary from an attack on whites or an attack on a transgender person. Hate crimes should definitely be punished, no statement against that. But they should not be punished more than other

According to (source) Victims of hate crimes do not receive benefits from the act they were denied. Instead their victimizers receive very severe punishment, typically in jails or prisons. (source) Hate crime committers have a punishment and that all they law enforcement and government does for the victim. How is that promoting equality for victims? What rights does that enforce for the victims? According to the same source (police officer hate crimes); Hate crimes create “a hierarchy of victims” based on perpetrators and victims, unless prosecutors can’t prove a bias motive. Considering that hate crime laws give something else to argue about; who should be punished more? (source) These laws are causing more problems, and more things to expostulate about. If these are the best laws enforced for hate crimes, what would the laws be applied for something worse? A real example of this is a man, Todd Mitchel, sentenced to 2 years in prison. But then had an additional sentence for the fact being discovered that his attack/murder was biased against a white 14 year old boy.(source) Now some would argue he should have been sentenced more, some not. But why only two years because of the bias, isn’t the fact that a man attacked/murdered a 14 year old boy, bad