{"id":5130,"date":"2021-04-26T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?p=5130"},"modified":"2021-06-29T20:45:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:45:32","slug":"nearly-every-state-has-a-hate-crime-law-why-dont-more-people-use-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?p=5130","title":{"rendered":"Nearly every state has a hate-crime law. Why don\u2019t more people use them?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5130\" class=\"elementor elementor-5130\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-272cc2ec elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"272cc2ec\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-19c76f7b\" data-id=\"19c76f7b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-467dcb60 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"467dcb60\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Almost all of the states and the federal government have laws against hate crimes, meant to put an end to threats or violent attacks aimed at people because of their identity. But there\u2019s a catch: Across the country, those statutes are rarely used, experts say, yielding few investigations, arrests or prosecutions after alleged hate crimes occur. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/04\/26\/hate-crime-laws-explained\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost all of the states and the federal government have laws against hate crimes, meant to put an end to threats or violent attacks aimed at people because of their identity. But there\u2019s a catch: Across the country, those statutes are rarely used, experts say, yielding few investigations, arrests or prosecutions after alleged hate crimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Edward Dunbar","author_link":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}