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Recent Examples of bias crime
Through last Sunday, bias crimes in the city were down 18% this year, with 18 incidents compared to 22 by this time last year.
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Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2025
Hay was arrested and booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on assault and bias crime charges, officials said.
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Paloma Chavez,
Sacramento Bee,
21 May 2024
Because of the victim’s profile, the police had designated the attack a bias crime.
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Longreads,
4 Apr. 2024
Those numbers have continued to rise in the first month of 2024 as the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force has seen a 12% increase in bias crimes, according to police department statistics.
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Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
22 Mar. 2024
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Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2025
Hay was arrested and booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on assault and bias crime charges, officials said.
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Paloma Chavez,
Sacramento Bee,
21 May 2024
Because of the victim’s profile, the police had designated the attack a bias crime.
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Longreads,
4 Apr. 2024
Those numbers have continued to rise in the first month of 2024 as the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force has seen a 12% increase in bias crimes, according to police department statistics.
—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
22 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bias crime
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As of now, the NYPD has not deemed the case a hate crime.
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Police were investigating the attack as a hate crime.
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With Yerry De los Santos also fumbling a bunt in the eighth, the Yanks tallied a season-high four errors on the night.
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Michael Conforto, Alex Bregman and Ian Happ had RBI hits in the sixth, when the Cubs’ runs were unearned thanks to a pair of errors.
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My job is to report in a timely manner on crime, mass shootings, war coverage, domestic and international affairs, pop culture and more.
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Although federal law requires the VA to publish statistics on arrests, citations, investigations and prosecutions by local agencies, the campus police website has no link to crime data.
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Lawyers in the gas station lawsuit assert that technology is enabling antitrust violations.
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Beijing has and been accused of serious human violations, including large-scale arbitrary detention of Uyghur and other Muslim minorities, in Xinjiang.
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Despite the extra funding, the budget continues a trend of relying on reserves, shifting funds, borrowing and suspending debt payments to balance state spending.
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Instead, the baseline is the auction price less the tax debt.
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“Bias crime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bias%20crime. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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