Reference

Training Guide for Hate Crime Data Collection (pdf)

Hate Crime Data Collection Guidelines (pdf)

Hate Crime: The Violence of Intolerance
Of all crimes, hate crimes are most likely to create or exacerbate tensions, which can trigger larger community-wide racial conflict, civil disturbances, and even riots. Hate crimes put cities and towns at-risk of serious social and economic consequences. The immediate costs of racial conflicts and civil disturbances are police, fire, and medical personnel overtime, injury or death, business and residential property loss, and damage to vehicles and equipment. Long-term recovery is hindered by a decline in property values, which results in lower tax revenues, scarcity of funds for rebuilding, and increased insurance rates. Businesses and residents abandon these neighborhoods, leaving empty buildings to attract crime, and the quality of schools decline due to the loss of tax revenue. A municipality may have no choice but to cut services or raise taxes or leave the area in its post-riot condition until market forces of supply and demand rebuild the area.

Department of Justice
“Responding to Hate Crime: A Multidisciplinary Curriculum” pub. 2000, 192 pages

“Hate Crime Training: Core Curriculum for Patrol Officers, Detectives and Command Officers”
pub. 1998, 280 pages (PDF)

Community Relations Service – Bibliography
– includes: “Twenty Plus Things Law Enforcement Agencies Can Do to Stop Hate Incidents against Arab-Americans, Muslims and Sikhs”
“CRS Bulletin – Hate Crime: The Violence of Intolerance”
“Responding to Hate Crimes and Bias-Motivated Incidents on College Campuses”
“Preventing Youth Hate Crime”

“National Bias Crime Training for Law Enforcement and Victim Assistance Professionals”
OVC, pub. 1995 – guide for two day course.

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC)
“On-line Hate Crime Training Course” Law Enforcement Resource Guide, Department of Homeland Security

Organizations

Anti-Defamation League
ADL fights hatred, extremism and terrorism. Our goal: to make the world a safer place. Over the past few years, we have expanded our expertise and capabilities to confront a more dangerous world.

“How to Combat Bias and Hate Crimes: A Blueprint for Action” see chapter three: “How to Train Law Enforcement (National and Community Models)”, No date, 79 pages.

Hate Directory
The Hate Directory includes directories of racist games available on the Internet and Web Rings, as well as racialist friendly web hosting services. All links are clickable, allowing you to access the sites directly from the index.

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
“Responding to Hate Crimes: A Police Officer’s Guide to Investigation and Prevention” pub. 1999,
11 pages plus pocket sized tear-out.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
The NAACP insures the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority groups and citizens; achieves equality of rights and eliminates race prejudice among the citizens of the United States; removes all barriers of racial discrimination through the democratic processes; seeks to enact and enforce federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights; informs the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and seeks its elimination; educates persons as to their constitutional rights and to take all lawful action in furtherance of these principles.

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation (the Task Force) was the first national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights and advocacy organization and remains the movement's leading voice for freedom, justice, and equality.

Partners against Hate
“The first Line of Response”
Innovative techniques for Handling Hate Crime”
Site also includes a bibliography of references mentioned here and hate crime statistical sources.

Simon Wiesenthal Center
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. The Center confronts important contemporary issues including racism, antisemitism, terrorism and genocide and is accredited as an NGO both at the United Nations and UNESCO.

Southern Poverty Law Center
the Center is internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists and its tracking of hate groups.

“Innovative Online Hate Crime Training Course” – in partnership with California State University’s San Bernardino Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and FLETC.

Stop the Hate
“Train the Trainers” 230 page manual, 20 hour program for college public safety officials.

TOLERANCE.ORG
“Every Victim Counts: Hate Crime Training Resources” an annotated bibliography of references mentioned elsewhere in this paper.

Hate Crimes Laws
ADL has long been in the forefront of national and state efforts to deter and counteract hate-motivated criminal activity. Hate crime statutes are necessary because the failure to recognize and effectively address this unique type of crime could cause an isolated incident to explode into widespread community tension.

State and Local

California
Hate Crime Resources for Law Enforcement and Prosecutors – bibliography and experts.

The California Attorney General’s Civil Rights Commission on Hate Crimes (PDF)
The Commission found a variety of reasons why victims of hate incidents and hate crimes do not report to law enforcement or other public authorities. Some common themes emerged, however, such as a lack of awareness about hate crime laws and a fear of being revictimized or of not being taken seriously by law enforcement or other public agencies. It also became evident that social and cultural barriers remain that discourage the reporting of hate crimes.

Florida
Florida Attorney General - 2002 Hate Crimes Report
This 2002 Hate Crimes in Florida Report, submitted in accordance with the 1989 Hate Crimes Reporting Act, contains data reported by individual local law enforcement agencies throughout Florida.

Maryland
Maryland Online Hate Crime Resource Center
Maryland law addresses hate crime specifically through Article 27 470A - Religious and Ethnic Crimes. It is illegal in Maryland, punishable by fine and/or imprisonment, for any person to vandalize or attempt to vandalize any religious property or to interfere by force or threat of force with any person in the exercise of their religious beliefs.

Middle Atlantic-Great Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement Network
Sponsors local training in partnership with the FBI such as “Hate Crimes Post 9-11” Seminar used by the Baltimore County Police Department.

Training Guide for Hate Crime Data Collection (PDF)
The material in this training guide is intended to assist law enforcement agencies in the task of establishing a hate crime training program for their personnel. It provides suggested model reporting procedures, as well as training aids for sensitizing street officers to the hate crime problem.

Higher Education

Association of College Unions International
Campus Hate Crime Prevention - A Model For Change
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics show that schools and college campuses are the third most common place for hate crimes to occur. Due to such statistics and the fact that the majority of hate crimes are committed by young people, there is a pressing need for colleges and universities to take the lead in preventing hate crime behaviors and creating a safe learning environment for all people.

Auburn University at Montgomery
“Introduction to Hate/Bias Crimes” – online course teaches police officers how to handle hate crimes – taught by Robert J. Van Der Velde.

Bowdoin College, Maine
Hate Crimes Panel formed Spring of 2004 – co-hosts seminars with Stephen Wessler, Director of the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence, University of Southern Maine and author of The Fractured American Dream: The Destructive Impact of U.S. Anti-Terrorism Policy on Muslim, Latino and Other Immigrants and Refugees Two Years after September 11, 2001. pub. Nov. 2003, 96 pages

Breyer State
M.S. in Criminal Justice course 679 “Hate Crimes” 4 semester hours

CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESOURCES Hate Crime and Cult, Hate, Fringe, or Militia Groups

Elmhurst College, Illinois
Excellent bibliography of print, video and internet resources on “Managing Diversity”.

FEMA and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Online Certificate program in Security Management and Homeland Security – course 44.326 “Domestic terrorism and Hate Crimes” – 3 credits