Are people too quick to label crimes as "race crimes" when they involve people of different ethnic backgrounds when it could just be labeled as a crime of opportunity?
2007-07-25 02:56:43 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I agree that people do lable race crimes to quickly. in my town we have had several tradgic incidents in the highschool alone. We had a drug bust in which the town tried to lable racist because all but 3 of the boys caught were black. I think that most crimes are those of opportunity. We are no longer living in the 60s. I don't think people honestly go around thinking i'm going to rob that store because the owner is indian or i'm going to shot that man because his is white.
2007-07-25 03:01:41 · answer #1 · answered by K 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If your take advantage of the opportunity based on the persons race or ethnic background then it is a race crime. But most of the time people label it a race crime quickly so that the law enforcement take it more seriously. If it is not labeled then it just another crime in the eyes of the law enforcers. And if the police don't take it serious then the victim can get different organizations to help push the law enforcers.
2007-07-25 03:08:59 · answer #2 · answered by tdtrent04 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Race crimes, and "Hate Crimes" are really "Thought" Crimes. These serve two purposes:
1) Label political opponents as being racist
2) Punish folks for having unpopular views.
I am very surprised that the First Amendment has not been successfully used to strike down these laws.
2007-07-25 04:16:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not at all!
Here is how the pitiful justice system works: if the public opinion pays no attention, anything can happen; but, being putted under the lenses of the public opinion a trial stands better chances to be done by the book.
That racial issue is implied whenever someone feels he is being disfavored or that the other site might exploit cracks in the system.
2007-07-25 03:22:48 · answer #4 · answered by Emil Alexandrescu 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely. Most prosecutors will tell you that they don't care what motivated the person to commit a crime. They care about the facts of the case.
Let me ask this question. If a white person murders a white person and another white person murders a black person what is the difference? Murder is murder they are both equally bad. Why is it so much worse if it is a "hate crime"?
2007-07-25 03:04:07 · answer #5 · answered by The Oracle of Delphi 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, people are much too quick to jump to that conclusion.
There are race-motivated and prejudice-motivated crimes, but those are specific situations -- not every crime between different races is automatically race-motivated.
2007-07-25 03:15:56 · answer #6 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The problem lay in the invention of the term, not in its use. It's illegal to kill someone. Whether you do it because you don't like his skin or because you don't like his mustache doesn't really make much difference.
I can only think of one race crime: Ben Johnson's 100 meters at the Seoul Olympics, 1988.
2007-07-25 03:05:26 · answer #7 · answered by Trevor E 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The word racism is a fear tactic and everyone wants to jump in a hole in the ground and not be labeled racist. The minority community understands this and utilizes it to their advantage. Look at the LA riots after that moron Rodney King was jailed.
2007-07-25 04:09:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2007-07-25 02:59:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes... easiest way to get peoples attention.
2007-07-25 02:59:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋