Report Hate Crimes
It is important to now what is a hate crime.
When a hate crime is committed, one or more perpetrators target the victim, which can be
one or more people or property, because of a protected aspect of the victim's identity, such
as religion or ethnicity, race, sexual orientation or disability. Similarly, a hate incident is an
act of hostility motivated by prejudice or bias that does not necessarily reach the threshold
of a criminal offence, or the criminal nature of which is yet to be determined.
A hate crime is any crime where the perpetrator is driven by prejudice or bias.
Criminal offence + bias motive = hate crime
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