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Dershowitz took special pains to address Carter’s policies towards Israel, calling Carter’s book, “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid”, “full of bias...
...Matthew Shepard Act would extend the two laws to cover all crimes committed because of bias, not just those that occur in public arenas like schools and restaurants. It would also extend the 1968 law to cover sexual orientation as well as gender and disability...
This is the antiriot line of reasoning: we should punish bias crimes more severely because those crimes "can reverberate" and cause riots. This argument was developed during the 1980s. At the time, many in the Northeast feared that race-based crimes would ignite their cities. In 1986, Michael Griffith, a 23-year-old New York City immigrant from Trinidad, was targeted by a white mob when he ended up in the wrong part of Brooklyn. He was struck by a car and killed as he tried to flee his attackers. Subsequently, a then obscure Baptist minister named Al Sharpton...
Under the current, limited hate-crimes laws, bias crimes have fallen. According to FBI figures, in 1995, there were 24 hate crimes based on race for every 1 million Americans; in 2006 - the most recent year for which data are available - there were 16. Anti-gay hate crimes have fallen from 5.2 per 1 million to 4.7 per 1 million - not a huge drop, but a statistically significant one. Would a broader hate-crimes law have reduced these figures even further? I doubt it. Even if a violent criminal knows that a tough hate-crimes law exists, wouldn't that...
...results are subject to recall and selection bias, in addition to lacking the standard double-blind control...