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Originally Posted by rahl
I'd be curious to see the statistics in which these crimes actually have a clear "hate" motivation. My problem with hate crimes is that it's nearly impossible to estabilish intent without a confession, or witnesses testifying that said person was spueing hate speach while committing said crime. Is it possible that alot of people have been charged and convicted for a hate crime for which the victim just happened to be of a different race, creed, sexual orientation and the purpotrator didn't neccessarily commit the crime because of those reasons?
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This is interesting to me. It sounds like you'd like to see the statistics, but then it also sounds like even if you saw them, you'd assume they were inaccurate.
In any case, you've summed up, with hate crimes as an example, one of the problems with all criminal prosecutions: the evidence is often incomplete and biased.