FBI Reports Hate Crimes Up in Arizona, Phoenix, and Maricopa County
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| Hate's all the rage in Sand Land. But you knew that... |
The FBI today released its hate crime report for 2008, showing the number of documented hate crimes by participating agencies to be up nationally by about 2.1 percent. Locally, hate crimes were up in Arizona by nearly 15 percent, in Phoenix by 11.25 percent (see note below), and in Maricopa County by 100 percent, but this last figure is somewhat misleading. There were only two hate crimes reported by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office for 2007. There were four reported in 2008.
According to the FBI's stats, Phoenix had the largest chunk of the reported hate crimes in the state, 89 in 2008, which is nine more than 2007. The state had a total of 185 for 2008, up from 161 in 2007.
These are significant increases, and should come as no surprise to those who pay attention to Arizona's roiling debate on immigration, with nativists, neo-Nazis and opportunistic politicians -- such as our own Sheriff Joe -- dominating the discussion. No doubt, Arpaio's ongoing anti-immigrant sweeps of the Valley's Hispanic communities increase ethnic tension, spread fear, and contribute to such crimes being underreported.
Indeed, trouble with reporting issues for bias crimes likely skews the results, as Professor Brian Levin, Director of Cal-State San Bernardino's Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism, pointed out in his Huffington Post blog on the new numbers.
"Participation is simply too spotty to be able draw firm conclusions about the direction of hate crime nationally last year," Levin wrote in his blog item.
Also, the efficiency of hate crime reporting varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Some police agencies have improved their reporting methods. Others seem to be marking down a perfunctory "0." Indeed, one wonders if Maricopa County's single digits are a product of a sheriff's department that openly engages in widespread racial profiling.
Experts from the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League have cited numerous reasons for a national rise, including the candidacy and election of President Barack Obama, the nation's first African-American president, as well as the down economy and the friction over the subject of immigration.
Bill Straus, Regional Director of the Arizona ADL, cited Arizona's attitude toward Mexican immigrants as one of the main causes for the increase in hate crimes in the state.
"The general rule of thumb I use," Straus told me, "is that hate crimes tend to increase when the dominant culture feels it's under attack, with regard to some of the anti-government sentiments. But here in Arizona, there's no question the rhetoric coming from the anti-immigration people would indicate to me that they feel they're under attack. They refer to it as an attack, an onslaught, an assault. And they use military terms to refer to the wave of immigration, legal and illegal."
Straus said he believes that the actual number of hate crimes for Phoenix and Arizona is higher, because "it's one kind of crime that's always underreported, regardless of the group."
There's another problem, of course, regarding the undocumented. If they are assaulted, in a bias crime or any other crime, what guarantee do they have that they will not be arrested and possibly deported? Phoenix does not target victims for this kind of enforcement, but the MCSO does. And fear of one law enforcement agency easily bleeds over into the fear of others.
NOTE: In April, I gave a preliminary report of the hate crime statistics for Phoenix based on the numbers I received from the Phoenix Police Department. At that time, I believed that there were 81 hate crimes for Phoenix in 2007, versus the 80 that the FBI had recorded. It would mean only a small difference, between around 10 percent and 11.25 percent, but I strive to be accurate with such details. I'm having Phoenix double-check the 2007 stats for me, and will update this blog when they're available.
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When we have a goon for shurf perpetrating a continuous message of hate against people who are brown, that message carries down within the organization and out to the community.
For example, many MCSO employees feel it's really okay to violate civil rights to arrest people who are brown in Maricopa County, apparently a local law enacted by the shurf of Maricopa.
Also, some young members of the shurf's own neighborhood, Fountain Hills, went out and tagged messages of HATE on cars known to belong to Jewish people. What did MCSO shurf have to say about it, "just kids being kids".
Not really.
The kids were emulating what they thought was a good thing. HATE. Based on the role model provided by MCSO, headed by their Flaccid Old Fool.
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 23 2009 @ 7:07PMIf this was on hate only it would be up 1000% against the FEATHURD FAGTARD!
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 23 2009 @ 8:11PMNazicopa County is sure deserving of it reputation, thank you Bozo Joe.
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 23 2009 @ 8:25PMI only harbor hate for the traitorous, anti-American slime that troll these communist, Marxist whiner sites. Lemons, Gilman and the list goes on. These are the true enemy to Phoenix, Arizona and America. Coz, he's almost dead already anyways, and I understand why he's such a miserable bastard.
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 23 2009 @ 8:55PM
It’s good to know that the tens of thousands of U.S Citizens being molested, raped, killed, robbed, kidnapped, and murdered by illegal aliens is not being done with hate. I guess that is why Dodo Bird ignores these citizen victims by our unwelcomed illegal guests.
You are always so fair and balanced!
http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/text/crimevictims.html
There's nothing fair or balanced about The Bird, including his diet.
Working for Village Voice media, you're not expected to lean left, you're expected to be as liberal and looney as you can be.
I suspect Lemons is doing this for money(albeit probably very little from New Times, the rest is probably from La Raza and other activist sources)
However, Gilmando, he's just a moron who I suspect does his little videos to compensate for his lack of self-confidence. The Latino community probably gives him all sorts of praise. I'm sure it helps with his short man's complex. Truth is, if the Sheriff disappeared tomorrow, Gilmando would pick up some other hispanic activism to take it's place. Just so his virtual phallus doesn't completely dissapear.
Don't be fooled, these guys don't do this for altruistic reasons, it's all about them. They could really care less about illegals, it's more about them and riding on the coat tails of the Sheriff's publicity.
Coz, well, he's got an axe to grind with the MCSO ever since they sorted through his dirty skidmarked undies and piles of porn at his house, looking for God only knows what. He's old and grumpy, probably headed for a myocardial infarction soon.
I've accepted the fact that they aren't ever going away, nor should they, they are part of the natural order of things. I'd much rather have these dopes leading the charge against the Sheriff than some organized group of people with a real leader.
The reports released by the FBI, is an indication of Maricopa County's grave & gathering infestation, fashioned by both white supremacists of various stripes & the illegal invaderz from South of the boder. Not to mentioned our very own Bull Connor of the 21st century(you know who I mean). The report is a call for alarm. It is a serious and dire problem that needs to be addressed to the American people like me who are concerned with the current race relations. The main 2 forces of divisions among us-- are white supremacists of various stripes & the illegal invaderz from the South. These 2 main culprits are the enemies of the U.S. that I grew up in. They both needed to be eliminated from the face of Freedom. So that America the Great, can be restored back to a Great Nation it once was.
~GENO~
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 4:21AM"Experts" from the SPLC and ADL? What experts? The SPLC manufactures "data" wholesale to scare donations out of its elderly donor base.
The SPLC has over $151 MILLION donor dollars in they're "Endowment Fund" and the top three guys, Dees, Cohen and Levin, split the first million donor dollars that come in the door each year between themselves. These guys make MILLIONS selling their so-called "hate" expertise.
As for Brian Levin, who has never solicited a dime, to my knowledge, not only is he the "Director" of the "Center for the Study of Hate," he's the whole staff as well.
Visit his "Center's" website. It has no staff, the phone number goes to another department entirely, the website was updated once in 8 years, its "official" blog is on a free blog site and the "Center's" only e-mail address is to Levin's free AOL account.
This is a professional, academic research center?
Levin may know his stuff, but his "Center" exists only on his letterhead and the CSU/SB recruiting brochures. It's a classic Bernaysian front group.
Some "experts".
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 4:28AMUSAHypocrite,
By "unwelcomed illegal guests" do you mean your wife?
Criminalizing any group of people weather they are black, white, brown, undocumented, polish, Mormon, catholic atheist, republican or just dumb-asses like yourself is wrong.
Even criminalizing hypocrites is wrong. People need to be judged individually by their own actions and merit.
It would be wrong to classify all racists as hypocrites just because you are.
I took the time to ask a few of your ex-pals Nov 14 at the Capitol what they thought about your little hypocrisy, they all agreed with me. You're a hypocrite.
Awww, you Joe supporters are so cute.
Will you be around on the 30th? Or will that just be another 3 or 4 of you and leather-tit-bag Barb shouting racial slurs? See you then, patriots.
Haha, god, just go buy a time share and get out of here already. You uneducated rednecks kill me.
All it takes to realize that "Hatred is the Drug", unlike the old Roxy Music song "Love is the Drug", in Sand Land is to read a few of the comments written by some seriously ignorant bozos on this blog. Sadly, I am not amazed by all of this hatred, racism, and ignorance. Roma, "caput mundi"; Phoenix, "imprudentiae mundi".
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 7:03AMTommyC, good to see you back on track with the "shurf" reference in the body of the post. However, your classic "The MCSO sheriff is mentally ill" is missing. Could this be yet another TommyC imposter?
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 7:26AM
In the great State of Aribama nothing surprises me anymore.
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 8:01AMSo, the MCSO reports only four hate crimes, but Phoenix reports 89? Very curious as to why there is such a difference.
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 8:48AMAnalyst, no imposter. Just a brain fart. I don't always use the tag line. In this case, when referring to the Flaccid Old Fool, and referring to his message of HATE, I didn't feel it necessary to add the tag.
With you being fairly close, in Tucson, I'm sure you see the hate from afar. It's much more apparent when one is not so close to the source of the problem.
Mark, if you don't know it by now, MCSO only reports what they want the public to hear. They pick and choose what goes out and truth is not a part of the determinant criteria for selection.
The MCSO sheriff is mentally ill.
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 9:31AManthony, I laugh in the face of idiots like you who call those who oppose arpaio communists..considering his arrest of newspaper reporters, critics, and political opponents is more what the KGB would do than a local county sheriffs department in AMERICA.
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 9:40AMFuck the Redneck Inbred Nazi's...
Total pieces of worthless shit they are.
The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 10:02AMnow this is pretty telling of how bad it has gotten here..only 12 people showed up to a KKK rally at Ole Miss U in support wearing robest, hoods, etc..(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma584yDaRm8&feature=player_embedded)..yet a few weeks ago, 60 nazi's showed up in full gear at our state capitol..
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 10:14AM
I better watch myself if they can pinpoint my location. TommyC must have access to the New Times computers. Very interesting, but scary also. Get the feeling Big Brother is definitely watching. Figures, TommyC was a cop.
Glad to see him back to his old self, with his classic, "The MCSO sheriff is mentally ill." I'm beginning to believe that also.
Correct. I make a point of avoiding Phoenix, so I'm not as emotionally involved in these disputes.
The MCSO sheriff is mentally ill.
Cool. I kinda like that.
The MCSO sheriff is mentally ill.
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 10:41AM
Chem Trail Karen
Are you still dreaming about you cup of Santorum?
Angry + Christian + Lots of Gay slurs - intelligence = Stupid repressed homosexual redneck.
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 10:55AMIt simply amazes me that all you bleeding hearts hate hate so much. You hate hate soooo much that you hate. Get a life and get a clue. Oh yea and by the way...get a job. Statistics show that those that work don't have time to be criminals and have a greater appreciation of law enforcement.
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 12:03PMSteve, actually many of us who post here are working, as I am right now. That's the beauty of being semi-retired and involved in consulting. I choose my break times each hour and read and post, then go back to work if I choose to.
Also, some of us who post here are involved in public safety and are on shift work, so you will see us posting during daytime hours and not at night.
Your statistics and assumptions seem to be skewed. No surprise there, eh big fella?
Actually most of us simply don't agree with those of you who choose to hate a person based on race, etc, without giving the individual the opportunity to be hated for cause other than those criteria.
We don't hate those who hate. But we sure as shit aren't in their camp.
But, thanks for your thoughts. It's always good to see someone like yourself spewing meaningless rhetoric without giving it any thought whatever. It gives us strength in what we do. And yes, Steve, my heart does bleed at times. Thank goodness for that, eh?
The MCSO sheriff is mentally ill. (Steve seems to be on his side)
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 12:27PMGilboy,
You’re no man for talking about a dead woman and the mother of a beautiful young girl. You’re a lump of shit with no self respect that surrounds himself with the undesirables of the world like Dodo Bird. Calling you anything other than a low life or a pedophile which I believe you to be would be a compliment. I only wish you had the balls to do it in person without the P.D. around to take care of you! You and Dodo Bird go back and forth calling each other brave souls because you confront people with the police around. The day you wish to meet real brave people let me know and I will introduce you to some combat vets!
I'm sure any interview you have asking about me would be with your silly friends pretending to be patriots. No self respecting person would ever give you the time of day and for that matter do it on camera. So talk your silly shit with your silly friends.
You and your other half Dodo Bird have exploited the illegals for your anarchist’s ideals that have nothing to do with illegal immigration or even Sherriff Joe. You act like feral children seeking the approval of the deviant. At night you sit around and comfort each other in lieu of real constructive human contact with literal stokes of praise and perverted whispers of accomplishments. People are not impressed with you as you two are with yourselves. You give nothing more than a bad name to the hard working legal immigrants of our community.
USAdefender1
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 3:36PMUsaHypocrite,
You use fake statistics to justify hate crimes and continue to avoid the fact that your wife was undocumented?
Thats the perfect definition of a loser. I'll be certain to remind any and everyone what you are in case anyone on the anti-immigrant side ever wants to forget.
You can call me anything you want. It wont change the fact as to what you are. Meanwhile, you will have to just make stuff up about me because thats all you will ever get.
You have no credibility-I do. No one makes you come around here and post your trash and no one stops you. So grow a pair. You keep showing yourself as the self hating
piece of trash you are. Your only hope is to get some attention here as no one else pays any to you any longer since you've been outed as a hypocrite. It's not my fault all you have are accusations when I have the proof.
If you had any self worth you would've disappeared when you deleted your last classic video. But thanks for the memories.
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 7:12PM[["USAdefender1 said: You give nothing more than a bad name to the hard working legal immigrants of our community....."]]
Quite a diatribe you had for yourself.
How and why is Mr. Gilman giving a bad name to legal immigrants by his fighting MCSO against their oppression of both legal and illegal immigrants and citizens?
The man simply asked if you were including your wife. Does Mr. Gilman know that your wife is no longer living or that she was the mother of a beautiful girl?
Pardon my ignorance. Help me understand your hatred....
And is all of this perpetrated simply because Mr. Gilman is the most 'out front' and video taping what he thinks is not the right way?
Just curious, Defender.
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 7:37PMStephen, great job showing us what the hate groups look like as they post in your blog. Looks like you hit a nerve again.
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 9:58PMOf course hate crimes would be on the increase, thanks to the hate culture created by Sheriff Arpaio using taxpayer dollars to build his personal agenda and pay for his legal fees.
We're sick and tired of arpaio and thomas and the hate culture they breed. They are sinking Arizona into a deeper hole with each passing day.
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 10:01PMNot hardly Nazi Pig, I am far from dead and loving life.
>>Coz, he's almost dead already anyways, and I understand why he's such a miserable bastard.
You and you Nazi pig friends are the only low lifes here.
Do yourself a favor and put a gun to your head and pull the trigger for America, you will not be missed by any means.
>>USAdefender1 says:
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 24 2009 @ 10:15PMUSAhypocrite,
You're no man. You betrayed your wife-I didn't. I used the truth on you and exposed you. You've got nothing on me because there is nothing. Learn from RAIA and USA-they tried and found nothing. The truth always sneaks up on a guy like you. But you bore me. I'm too busy working on another video to play with you. You seem to be busy deleting yours. (spare yourself the " accidently hit delete button" nonsense. You've humiliated yourself enough for 2009 don't you think? It was your most popular video thanks to dodo-bird..haha) I guess making an ass of yourself here is all you are capable of anymore. We know one thing-you won't be sneaking into any events for a while.
Sorry everyone for the silliness with the hypocrite.
This is more interesting if you want to watch the whole Minute Klans fall apart in California. A very educational and exposing video from some friends:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1TGcfxuSwY
Posted On: Wednesday, Nov. 25 2009 @ 1:22AMUSAdefender1, there is a long line of individuals just waiting for the right time and place to exterminate Gilman. I'd personally enjoy nothing more than beating him to within an inch of his life, but would also be content with watching you or another Veteran having the honor. Just make sure you stuff that La Raza bought camera of his sideways up his ass (no worries mate, there is plenty of room, his asshole is like a subway station).
Posted On: Wednesday, Nov. 25 2009 @ 6:40AMUSAdefender
Why do you you and the other neo-nazi's all want the PD NOT to be present when you encounter these race traitors?
If you actually felt as strongly about your feelings of hatred and disgust as you claim that you do you would not let the presence of some darkie/ mud blood cops stand in your way of what you see is the right thing to do.
Are you afraid of some mud blood police?
Where is you sense of outrage that the mud bloods can control you like you are a dog on a short leash and do it so easily?
Why do you always want a group of yourselves to encounter one of the other bloggers?
Are you not capable of punishing a race traitor yourself? Do you NEED a group of your kind around to embolden you?
Why won't you talk to gilman on camera?
Do you not believe what you are saying is the absolute truth?
If it is the truth will not other people not see it as the truth and willing join your ranks?
The problem as you outlined above is not that other people are NOT impressed with Gilman and his camera but that they ARE impressed with him, all the people see is you getting served at all events by this little man and his camera, people see the fear in your eyes when you do see him and they laugh at you , behind your back and right in front of you, you are a laughing stock and you do not even see it.
For shame on you......... HELL show the world you are a man and Jump Gilman the next time you see him, Do it in front of those mud blood cops and show them that they do not control the dog as well as they think they do.
OR are you too scared?
Posted On: Wednesday, Nov. 25 2009 @ 9:15AMBoy o boy! Gilboy has more butt buddies than a public toilet seat here!
I have not stated any statistics on this thread yet everyone has their panties in a knot! Goes to show what real idiots Dodo Bird has as readers!
Happy thanksgiving traitors! I'll be gone for the next 5 days spending time with family. Something most of you disown pricks don't have! Jajajajaja
Viva the USA dirt bags!
USAdefender1
P.S. Hey Dodo Bird I expect a check in the mail for livening things up around here!!!
USAdefender,
Your first post stated this
"It’s good to know that the tens of thousands of U.S Citizens being molested, raped, killed, robbed, kidnapped, and murdered by illegal aliens is not being done with hate."
But you finish your last comment with
" I have not stated any statistics on this thread yet everyone has their panties in a knot! Goes to show what real idiots Dodo Bird has as readers!"
That just goes to show that you're an ignorant douchbag.
You come here to put down Gilman because you can't do what he does. You're obviously jealous and it shows with every post.
Your obsession with him is entertaining. It's the only attention you can get. Lets face the facts. No one watches your videos anymore even when you link to them on every post. When Gilman decides to take you on in a battle of wits, you're the only reader too stupid to know what a fool he makes of you.
He's exposed you to the nativists for what you really are and now you have no support. Maybe you think posting here will earn you their respect but I have a feeling the whole hypocrite thing is going to follow you for a long time.
Have a happy Holiday and try to find a new hobby. You suck at this one.
Posted On: Wednesday, Nov. 25 2009 @ 9:34PMAnalysis,
En primer lugar que significa "Nativist" a ti? La cosa es que la mayoria de inmigrantes legales no apoyan inmigracion ilegal. Aqui el unico idiota lo eres tu! Que te vaya bien puto en estos dias ya que yo ya salgo a ver a los mios!
Google this;
deaths caused by illegal aliens
Then
Google this;
deaths caused by US citizens on illegal aliens
What did you learn?
Pendejo analysis doesn’t know what a "Nativist" is! Jajajaja
USAdefender1
"The Nativist" Who was born in a far off land!
Algunos Gringos are just plain estupidos! (That’s Spanglish for you non-Nativists)
USAdefender1, painting these liberal fools with facts is like pissing in the wind.
Keep up the good work bro. Don't ever let these very few in numbers discourage your Patriotism or mission. We will complete the mission, the enemy will perish and the Constitution will prevail.
Here's another fact, most of these socialists will have to Google to translate what you've stated, the same ones who are using these "poor" immigrates to fuel their own Marxist agenda. Nothing worse than a traitor and a hypocrite.
Posted On: Thursday, Nov. 26 2009 @ 11:11AMAgain you divert the points made by trying to change the subject. It's a failed tool you use far too often to call yourself a patriot. You're one damaged individual. I pity you.
Sensible members of the human race don't try to criminalize an entire group of people. Only sick people who live in fear
and are full of hatred do. That sums you up faily well.
USAdefender
Dude give it up.
On a kinda side note.
I exposed another nativist (Jim Cooney) as a person that lied about being in combat, being in the Marines, being a drug user, and being a convict. Not only did it not matter to the other nativists they actually came to his defense after he lied to their faces. It just goes to show you what kind of mentality you are dealing with when talking to these people.
Lot of veterans and law abiding citizens these nativists are. The truth doesn't matter to them at all.
Posted On: Friday, Nov. 27 2009 @ 6:01PMIf you are a GAY PERSON you can't get catholic funeral with Bishop O. he controls the ASU TNC,Luke AF chapel, and his Father PERP. in Sun City West,Az.
Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 5:58PMPauline Smyith says:
"If you are a GAY PERSON you can't get catholic funeral with Bishop O. he controls the ASU TNC,Luke AF chapel, and his Father PERP. in Sun City West,Az."
The bible clearly states that homosexuality is an abomination and is punishable by death.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 - "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."
Leviticus 20:13 - "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."
Romans 1:26-27 - "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."
Fags and Dykes will burn in hell. Enjoy it!















