THE HATE CRIME
STATISTICS ACT
(HCSA): THE FBI's
1991 REPORT

In early January, the FBI released its first
report on hate crime data collected by law
enforcement agencies around the country.
The data was compiled by the FBI pursuant
to the Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA)
passed by Congress in 1990. The FBI report-
ed documented a total of 4,558 hate crime
incidents, from almost 2,800 police depart-
ment in 32 states.
The FBI report indicated that over 60% of
the reported hate crimes were race-based,
with 19% committed against individuals on
the basis of their religion, 10% on the basis of
ethnicity, and 9% against gays and lesbians.

Crimes against Jews and Jewish institu-
tions comprised the vast majority of the reli-
gion-based crimes, with 792 reported crimes -
almost 17% of the total. 36% of the reported
crimes were anti-Black, 19% of the crimes
were anti-White, 6% of the crimes were anti-
Asian, and 5% anti-Hispanic.
ADL welcomed the release of these first
FBI statistics on hate crimes as an important
step forward in improving the national
response to hate violence. Since the passage
of the HCSA, ADL has served as principal
resource for the FBI and other law enforce-
ment agencies in implementing the Act. ADL
and other groups with expertise in analyzing
and responding to hate crimes have partici-
pated in a number of training seminars for
state and local law enforcement authorities
on how to identify, report, and respond to
hate crimes.
Like the League's own finding in its 1991
Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, the FBI
report revealed that intimidation was the
most frequently reported crime, concerning
more than one-third of the total hate crime
offenses. Another third of the reported
crimes were assaults, with 27%
destruction/damage/vandalism to property.

Beyond mere numbers, ADL has always
expected implementation of the HCSA to
spark improvements in the response of the
criminal justice system to hate crimes. To
date, considerable progress has been made
towards that goal. Coupled with the fact that
many police departments have now adopted
formal hate crime policies, the HCSA has
already had a very positive impact on the
national response to hate violence.

The 2,800 participating law enforcement
agencies in 1991 - though only a fraction of
the nation's 16,000 agencies - reflect well on
the FBI's initial HCSA outreach and educa-
tion efforts. Though clearly incomplete - the
FBI received virtually no reports from
California, North Carolina, Michigan, and
Florida, for example - these first FBI statis-
tics give the League and other agencies
devoted to improving response to hate vio-
lence a baseline for the future.

ADL will continue to work with Congress,
the FBI, with public officials, and with the
law enforcement community to ensure that
gains in public awareness and improved pub-
lic response to hate violence continue - and
that the number of law enforcement agencies
participating in the FBI's HCSA program
expands.

ADL HATE-CRIME
POLICE TRAINING
VIDEO

The accuracy, uniformity and dependability
of bias-crime data collected will only be as
good as the "reporters." Thus, effective train-
ing for police officials on how to identify,
report and respond to hate crimes will be
critical to ensure the success of the Hate
Crimes Statistics Act.
To help meet this need, ADL produced,in
association with the New Jersey Department
of Law and Public Safety, a law enforcement
training film on hate crimes. The seventeen-
minute video, titled "Hate Crime: A Training
Video for Police Officers," is designed to be
shown at police training academies and to
law enforcement agencies across the country.
To date, over 400 police departments have

used the video in training programs dealing
with hate crimes.
An important example: During 1992, the
Georgia Committee on Civil Rights Under
Color of Law (a statewide committee made
up of law enforcement officials and private
agencies concerned with law enforcement)
recommended to the Georgia Peace Officer
Standards and Training (POST) Council that
they adopt ADL's Police Training Video as
part of the compulsory curriculum for all new
law enforcement officers in Georgia - approx-
imately, 1,750 annually. In addition, the
video is to be phased into in-service training
for all veteran officers in a program conduct-
ed at about 80 sites in Georgia each month.
ADL made twenty copies of the video avail-
able to the POST Council.
The video portrays actual incidents of crim-
inal activity motivated by prejudice. It dra-
matically illustrates the impact of this type
of crime on the victim and the victim's com-
munity. Most importantly, the film concisely
outlines appropriate law enforcement
response - by showing how to identify hate
crimes and how to deal with the victim's
trauma, and by underlining the importance
of treating bias-motivated criminal action
seriously. The film has been endorsed by the
International Association of Chiefs of Police,
the National Organization of Black Law
Enforcement Executives, the Fraternal
Order of Police and the Police Foundation.
Former Attorney General Richard
Thornburgh wrote the Foreword for the
twenty-four page discussion manual for
trainers that accompanies the film.

SECURITY HANDBOOK

Security for Community Institutions, a
handbook prepared by ADL's Civil Rights
Division in cooperation with the New York
City Police Department's Crime Prevention
Division, was updated and republished in
1992. Along with ADL's pocket-size security
pamphlet, adapted from the handbook and
published in 1991, it provides guidelines of
security in religious, community and public
buildings.
Both the security handbook and ADL's
pocket pamphlet have been shared with hun-
dreds of synagogues and Jewish institutions
as well as with other ethnic organizations,
religious institutions and community groups
whose premises are also vulnerable to bias
crimes.

EDUCATION

THE SCHOOLS AND THE WORKPLACE
In 1992, ADL dedicated its newly formed A
WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Institute. The
Institute was formed in furtherance of the
ADL's mission to strengthen pluralism in the
United State by defining and advancing a
discipline of diversity education. At a time
when two-thirds of those entering our work-
force are women and people of color, we are
witnessing a marked increase in incidents of
fractious intergroup conflict reported by our
nation's schools, government agencies, work-
places, and communities at large. Through
education programs, materials, and services,
the Institute empowers people to value diver-
sity and eradicate prejudice, bigotry and dis-
crimination.
Since 1985, the A WORLD OF DIFFER-
ENCE program (now the Institute) has pro-
duced the following accomplishments:
• Trained more than 100,000 elementary and
secondary school teachers, reaching more
than 10 million public, private, and
parochial school students.

• Conducted workplace diversity training
programs for over 60,000 adult workers
employed in over 60 different corporations,
government agencies, or small businesses.

South African managers participated in the
A WORKPLACE OF DIFFERENCE, return-
ing to their homeland with ADL/A WORLD
OF DIFFERENCE materials and programs.
The Institute is investigating ways in which
it may be helpful to other foreign countries,
including Germany.

THE CLASSROOM:
HELPING STUDENTS
RASE PREJUDICE

The nation's schools must be included in
any program designed to address the prob-
lem of bigotry. Confronting and eliminating
prejudice should be an educational priority
at all levels of education.
ADL disseminates an extensive catalogue
of print and audiovisual materials for
schools. Included are books, curricula, and
videos on prejudice reduction, multicultural
education, the Holocaust, and ways of
strengthening our democratic society. This
catalogue of materials is utilized by more
than 100,000 teachers, administrators, and
curriculum developers.
ADL, the National Urban League, and the
League of United Latin American Citizens
(LULAC) have formed a coalition to improve
education. A major goal for this coalition is to
work with schools to help them develop pro-
grams that teach the importance of inter-
group respect and understanding within our
democratic, pluralistic society.

In cooperation with the National PTA, ADL
has prepared and the National PTA has dis-
tributed a pamphlet entitle "What To Teach
Your Child About Prejudice and
Discrimination." In clear and direct lan-
guage, the pamphlet assists parents and
teachers in telling youngsters how to treat
others with respect and how to deal with
prejudice directed against themselves.

ADL, together with the New York State
Department of Education, has developed a
pamphlet for high school students, "Hate
Can Hurt, Let's Stop Prejudice," The pam-
phlet has been widely utilized to initiate dis-
cussions among youngsters on how to deal
with prejudiced behaviors.
To meet the threat of anti-Semitism, the
ADL has produced two educational videos
with discussion guides, plus three pamphlets
under the overall title "Confronting Anti-
Semitism." The two videos, "A How-To for
Jewish Youth" and "A Family Awareness
Project" stimulate various scenarios such as
anti-Jewish "jokes" and comments, and
school policies that conflict with religious
observances.
The pamphlets "Guidelines for Jewish
Parents" and "Guidelines for the Jewish
Community" help parents to aid young vic-
tims of hate, and Jewish communities in con-
fronting modern anti-Semitism. The third
pamphlet in the series offers "Guidelines for
the Christian Community" on facing anti-
Semitism.
This multimedia program is designed for
schools, religious organizations, and commu-
nity groups.

ADL has also offered guidance to Jewish
and other students to counter the anti-
Semitic rhetoric and accusations of Minister
Louis Farrakl- in, his followers, and others
ssed similarly hateful views
who have e'
on campus.
Other acts _:es of the Campus
Affairs/Higher Education Department
included an October 1991 conference, sup-
ported by the Levine Institute, and organized
in conjunction with ADL's Western States
Area Education Director, that was held in
Los Angeles for southern California Jewish
students on responding to the issues associ-
ated with multiculturalism on campus. The
ADL convened a national consultation with
Jewish student leaders in January 1992 to
discuss anti-Semitism and bigotry on cam-
pus. ADL CRISIS MANAGEMENT TEAMS,
supported by the Levine Institute, worked
with faculty, staff, and students to counter
anti-Semitism at Queens College and the
City College of New York.

Based upon a successful multi-year collabo-
ration between ADL's Washington D.C.
Regional Office and an ADL-organized task
force of college and university administrators
from throughout the greater Washington
D.C. area, the ADL is now working with the
American Council on Education to create
similar task forces throughout the United
States. The first of these, constructed on a
pilot basis, is being organized out of the
ADL's Houston Regional Office.

Lastly, Mrs. Bidi Finkelstein and her fami-
ly have endowed the Albert Finkelstein
Campus Editors Study Mission to Poland
and Israel. Each year, beginning in August
1993, a group of 15-20 editors of campus
newspapers will embark on a journey of dis-
covery, going from Auschwitz to Jerusalem,
from destruction to rebirth, spanning the two
major benchmarks of Jewish experience in
the twentieth century. In the process, they
will learn to recognize the insidious evil and
patent falsehood of attempts at Holocaust
denial as well as to better grasp the complex-
ities of the search for peace in the Middle
East and the importance of Israel for the
Jewish people.

THE DEPARTMENT OF
CAMPUS AFFAIRS
/HIGHER EDUCATION

College and university campuses have
emerged as a focal point for ADL concern and
programming with regard to anti-Semitic
acts and propaganda. The Department of
Campus Affairs/Higher Education has

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• Developed a law enforcement diversity
training program currently being imple-
mented by the FBI and Police Departments
across the United States.

• Increased student awareness at more than
300 college campuses.
In addition, 1992 marked the beginning of
the Institute's work outside of the United
States. A team of Institute professionals con-
ducted training in Moscow. A team of over 50

worked effectively to meet the many chal-
lenges faced by the Jewish community on
campus.
A further outreach to the campus communi-
ty on Holocaust denial and related issues of
anti-Semitic extremist speakers on campus
consisted of a national electronic town meet-
ing for Jewish students entitled "The
Rhetoric of Hate." This nationally-televised
satellite-based teleconference, underwritten
by the Levine Institute, reached nearly 2,000
students at over 60 sites around the United
States.
.vith the Coalition on Higher
In associ.
the New York Civil Rights
Education
Coalition, AL has produced, and is now dis-
tributing nationally, a well-received video
and study guide that examine critically and
counteract the anti-Semitic and racist asser-
tions of CCNY's Professor Leonard Jeffries.

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