Black, Jewish Leaders Target Hate Crimes

January 7, 2008 Edition

Black, Jewish Leaders Target Hate Crimes

BY SARAH GARLAND – Staff Reporter of the Sun
January 7, 2008
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/68994

Black and Jewish leaders have formed a coalition to fight hate crimes in response to a rise in the number of hate crime complaints last year that ended with an attack on a group of Jewish students during Chanukah.

Yesterday’s announcement of the coalition comes as elected officials and police seem to be flummoxed by the increasing number of possible bias crimes — in which police have yet to announce that they have caught any suspects.

Hate crime complaints rose as much as 20% last year versus the previous year, even as other crime dropped. Two swastikas were found in Brooklyn last week, on the first two days of 2008.

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