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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.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 21 May 2024
Because of the victim’s profile, the police had designated the attack a bias crime.
—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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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.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 21 May 2024
Because of the victim’s profile, the police had designated the attack a bias crime.
—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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Speaking to reporters Wednesday at the site of the stabbings, Rowley said there had been a rise in racist and antisemitic hate crime.—
Jomana Karadsheh,
CNN Money,
1 May 2026
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Police said officers at the scene completed a report for vandalism and battery with a hate crime involved.—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
30 Apr. 2026
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Mayer advanced to third on a subsequent error by Walls trying to flip the ball to second base, which scored Yoshida, and came home himself on Caleb Durbin’s RBI single, tying the game at 3-3.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
8 May 2026
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He was found dead by suicide in his jail cell that August — the result of what federal investigators concluded in 2023 was a cascade of misconduct, negligence and errors by staff at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.—
Tom Winter,
NBC news,
7 May 2026
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Anti-gang units, officials say, form the backbone of the department’s crime fighting efforts in neighborhoods plagued by gang violence.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2026
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But that, again, doesn’t stop the crime.—
Lew Sichelman,
Miami Herald,
7 May 2026
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Garcia Martinez was processed for federal immigration law violations and transported to a detention facility with detainers to ensure extradition to New York after final adjudication of the immigration violations, CBP said.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
8 May 2026
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But a confidential internal audit later seemed to suggest body camera misuse was more widespread, finding similar violations among patrol officers in three other divisions, including 77th Street.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2026
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An earlier analysis from Deutsche Bank pointed out that the CBO assumes the primary deficit—the shortfall between revenue and spending excluding interest payments on debt—is expected to remain relatively stable over the next decade and beyond at about 2% of GDP.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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My health care plan will cap prescription drug spending, create a public option to bring down premiums, and eliminate medical debt for low-income Californians.—
Antonio Villaraigosa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 May 2026
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“Bias crime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bias%20crime. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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