bias crime

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for bias crime
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Noun
  • Police and county records The Observer requested data on every incident the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has investigated since 2019 that falls under general statute hate crime laws.
    Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 31 Dec. 2025
  • What do prosecutors say about the hate crime allegation?
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The federal government primarily finances supplemental food benefits, but the state’s share is determined, in part, by its management, as indicated by its rate of error when determining people’s eligibility.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The research depended on computer simulations, which meant that tiny adjustments to the initial state of the digital fluid (or any digital rounding errors) wouldn’t affect the fluid’s fate.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The charges Dasjanae Teyona Timmons, a 23-year-old with a Jessup address, and Dahmira Monya Laboo, another 23-year-old with a Severn address, were identified as suspects in the crime.
    Andrew Adeolu, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Tyrone Williams faces 10 charges in Roxbury District Court, including multiple assault and firearms charges, compounded by having a previous violent crime or drug crime conviction.
    Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 10 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The most common template for an insider trading violation is as follows.
    Samidh Guha, ABC News, 9 Nov. 2025
  • In Chicago, the indelible image of a pastor in a clerical collar shot in the head with a pepper ball by agents standing on the rooftop of an ICE building is a direct violation of CBP’s use of force policy.
    Andy Rose 19 hr ago, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Opponents raised concerns about the cost of new construction and long-term debt, arguing that renovations could have addressed the library’s deficiencies.
    Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • In March 2025, xAI acquired X at a valuation of $45 billion, including debt, just over two years after Musk had purchased what was then known as Twitter for $44 billion.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Nov. 2025

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“Bias crime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bias%20crime. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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