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...danger involved: a study by the Boston Bar Association found that the domestic attacks were at least as dangerous as 90% of felony assaults. "Police seldom arrest, even when there are injuries serious enough to require hospitalization of the victim," declared the Florida Supreme Court in a 1990 gender-bias study, which also noted the tendency of prosecutors to drop domestic-violence cases...
Given that bias, it is even harder for a lawyer to call it self-defense when a woman shoots a sleeping husband. The danger was hardly immediate, prosecutors argue, nor was the lethal response reasonable. Evidence about battered-woman syndrome may be the only way to persuade a jury to identify with a killer. "Battered women are extraordinarily sensitive to cues of danger, and that's how they survive," says Walker. "That is why many battered women kill, not during what looks like the middle of a fight, but when the man is more vulnerable or the violence is just...
...nigger more to go" and is signed "KKK." It happened in Hillsborough County, Florida, on New Year's Day, and last week three white men were arrested in connection with the attack. It was a fitting backdrop for the FBI's first ever national report on the subject of bias crimes. The study, based on information supplied by law-enforcement agencies in 32 states, found that 4,558 hate-crime incidents were reported in 1991. Racial bias motivated 6 of 10 offenses reported, religious bias 2 of 10, ethnic and sexual-orientation bias 1 of 10 each...
According to the FBI's classifications, blacks are the targets of most bias attacks (36%), followed by whites (19%) and Jews (17%). The bureau's report is far from definitive -- only about 3,000 of 16,000 law-enforcement agencies elected to participate. That may be the survey's most telling statistic, since it suggests that local law enforcement officials need to develop greater sensitivity toward bias offenses. Still, says Arthur Kropp, president of People for the American Way, a liberal lobbying group, the report is important: "It's the first national picture of hate crimes...
Many Latino students interviewed yesterday echoed the statements of the student leaders, saying that throughout their student careers, they confront bias in various forms...