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The U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service (CRS) helps campus leaders address issues impacting their community through its Campus-Site Problem Identification and Resolution of Issues Together (Campus-SPIRIT) program. The program helps campus communities address tension and conflict related to issues of race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability.
This video provides information about the Justice Department’s hate crimes enforcement efforts, including implementation of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act and the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act, which includes provisions of the Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act. Remarks are provided by hate crimes survivors Dawn and Richard Collins, parents of Second Lieutenant Richard Collins III; Rami and Victoria Jabara, siblings of Khalid Jabara; and Susan Bro, mother of Heather Heyer.
This report, which is part of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) project, aims to improve understanding of the characteristics of bias crime and offenders in the United States, based on the collection and analysis of data on a national sample of 966 adult offenders who committed hate crime in the United States from 1990 through 2018.
This Community Policing Dispatch article highlights the work that Michigan State University is doing to address bias and hate crimes on campus.
The key findings and corresponding recommendations of this study are intended to assist police and prosecutors in identifying and investigating hate crimes, assist crime victims, and engage with the LGBTQ community. The main data source for this study was the interviews with 400 Latine LGBTQ individuals who have experienced what they perceived as a crime within the 5 years preceding the interview. All respondents were required to be 18 years old or older, Latine, self-identified as LGBTQ, have experienced victimization, and not had more than two drinks prior to the interview.
Watch the webinar about this research here: https://nij.ojp.gov/events/research-action-anti-lgbtq-hate-crimes-miami
In 2018, the Hate Crimes Enforcement and Prevention Initiative convened a law enforcement roundtable on challenges and successes in identifying, reporting, and tracking hate crimes. Although hate crimes and other bias-motivated incidents are generally investigated and prosecuted as state, local, or tribal matters, the Federal Government collaborates with state and local partners in the effort to eliminate these crimes from our communities. Through robust discussion and analysis, roundtable participants developed recommendations for enhancing hate crimes investigation and reporting that comprise a valuable roadmap for the journey ahead.
The Dialogue on Race program guide is a resource to help communities facilitate dialogue meetings between diverse stakeholders. These dialogues help to address racial conflict and decrease racial tensions by opening lines of communication and fostering mutual understanding between groups. The guide provides step-by-step instructions for planning and facilitating a dialogue as well as a list of supplemental resources. The following is a link to the associated Dialogue on Race program brochure: https://www.justice.gov/file/1376601/download.
The CRS Dialogue on Race program is an interactive, facilitated process that opens lines of communication and fosters mutual understanding to help address racial conflict and decrease racial tensions. The Dialogue on Race program convenes participants from as many parts of the community as possible to exchange information face-to-face or virtually, share personal stories and experiences, honestly express perspectives, clarify viewpoints, and develop solutions that address community concerns. The following is a link to the associated Dialogue on Race program guide: https://www.justice.gov/file/1376601/download.
Under Title X of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Matthew Shephard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Prevention Act of 2009, CRS provides support to public and private secondary schools, universities and colleges that are experiencing actual or perceived tension or conflicts based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability. CRS serves as a neutral third party and its services are confidential, voluntary, and provided at no cost.
The 2020 COPS Hiring Program is a competitive grant program designed to advance public safety through community policing by addressing the full-time sworn officer needs of state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies nationwide. CHP provides funds directly to law enforcement agencies to hire new or rehire existing career law enforcement officers and to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. All local, state, and tribal law enforcement agencies that have primary law enforcement authority are eligible to apply.
Applications are due by March 11, 2020 at 7:59 PM EDT.