City Council members stood in front of the victims’ memorial supporting legislation to strengthen local hate crime penalties. A bill introduced to council Tuesday night could triple the fines ...

A Travis County grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict a man on a hate crime charge in the stabbing of a man showing support for Palestinians near the University of Texas campus in February but ...

Toronto police and Crime Stoppers are partnering to launch a new hate crime awareness campaign. They say it comes at a time when hate-related incidents in the city are reaching record highs.

Hate crime reports in Scotland are on course to outnumber all other offences put together, figures show, as front-line officers warned they “can’t cope” with the surge. Around 8,000 hate ...

SNP ministers are under fire amid reports the Scottish Government spent almost £400,000 on a public information campaign ahead of the rollout of new hate crime legislation. Police Scotland began ...

Toronto police and Crime Stoppers are partnering to launch a new hate crime awareness campaign. They say it comes at a time when hate-related incidents in the city are reaching record highs.

SNP ministers are planning to extend Scotland’s controversial hate crime laws to offer more protections for transgender people. Amid calls for the legislation to be scrapped after police were ...

Police Scotland received nearly 7,800 reports of hate crime under Scotland's new law in the first week of operation - with three per cent of the reports resulting in a recorded offence ...

More than 1,000 hate crime complaints have been made to police every day on average since Scotland’s controversial new law was introduced on April Fool’s Day. Only a tiny fraction of the ...

A "hate crime" itself is not its own specific offense under existing laws, or the new law.But if you are found to commit another crime (for example, assault) and it is proven that this was based ...

Scottish police have been inundated with reports since the country's controversially broad hate crime act went into effect last week, overwhelming the system to an extent that could render law ...

Almost £400,000 in taxpayers’ money was spent on promoting the SNP’s new hate crime laws. The advertising campaign, which focused on the hurt feelings words could cause, urged Scottish people ...