SENATE BILL: Combating Asian Hate Crimes (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE BILL

To condemn the rise in hate crimes against the Asian community and provide for better reporting of the same and other purposes.

Be it enacted in both Houses of Congress Assembled,

Combating Anti-Asian Hate Crimes.

This act hereby recognises and condemns the rise in anti-Asian bigotry, hate crimes and violence both in Atlasia and across the world.

1.) Commission.

A.) A commission is hereby created to coordinate state, regional and federal law enforcement bodies and other relevant public bodies to reduce anti-Asian hate crimes in Atlasia. This commission shall consist of individuals appointed by the Attorney General.

2.) Data.

A.) Federal Law Enforcement bodies shall collect data on the number of asian hate crimes, and be required to report these numbers on an annual basis.

B.) Local, state-wide and regional law enforcement shall hereby receive support from the department of Justice to establish online reporting of hate crimes or incidents, with said data available on a monthly and yearly basis.

C.) $50 million in training grants shall hereby be appropriated to improve the reporting of hate crimes and to expand co-operation and inter-agency working practices.

People's Regional Senate
Pending

Sponsor: Blair
Senate Designation: SB30:07 I think

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Initial Debate Period, Sponsor has 24 hours to commence advocacy, the rest of the members 48 hours to respond.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

In response to the sponsors "writer's block", an issue I seem to get frequently these days amazingly, how does this compare to actions both legislative and not taken to respond to hate crimes in other communities?

I think that combined with a basis in what we have done that is cross applicable, would be a good way to determine what other appropriate steps need to be taken.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

In response to the sponsors "writer's block", an issue I seem to get frequently these days amazingly, how does this compare to actions both legislative and not taken to respond to hate crimes in other communities?

I think that combined with a basis in what we have done that is cross applicable, would be a good way to determine what other appropriate steps need to be taken.

My understanding is that most common problem is that there's no reporting at all (regardless of race)

This is why I didn't make it specific within 2B about what the hate crime reporting was; I'll have a look at what other legislative work has been done on this too.

So if we have the reporting, then the presumption of the "common problem", is that existing statutes and procedures and penalties are sufficient to handle the problem from there basically?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The commission ought to consider the inherent vagueness and subjectiveness of the nature of the designation in practice.
I recall reading somewhere (in a Xahar post, iirc) that hate crime status is often added on in investigative phase and not reviewed in the vast majority of cases. There is a valid argument to the idea that hate crime status says more about how we as a society see crimes rather than anything about the crimes themselves. This means that frequently it is wishcasting. If it's not fashionable to see something as a hate crime, it won't get labelled as one, and vice versa.

Kind of like how in the post 911 world, how only Islamic originated terrorism is seen as terrorism in some eyes.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So where does that leave us here?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So proceeding with text as is then?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A final vote is now open here, Senators please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Aye

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Final Passage of the Combating Asian Hate Crimes:

Aye (6): Blair, Falterin, NC Yankee, Pericles, Sev and Spark
Nay (0):
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (0):

This bill has passed the Senate for what it is worth.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE BILL

To condemn the rise in hate crimes against the Asian community and provide for better reporting of the same and other purposes.

Be it enacted in both Houses of Congress Assembled,

Combating Anti-Asian Hate Crimes.

This act hereby recognises and condemns the rise in anti-Asian bigotry, hate crimes and violence both in Atlasia and across the world.

1.) Commission.

A.) A commission is hereby created to coordinate state, regional and federal law enforcement bodies and other relevant public bodies to reduce anti-Asian hate crimes in Atlasia. This commission shall consist of individuals appointed by the Attorney General.

2.) Data.

A.) Federal Law Enforcement bodies shall collect data on the number of asian hate crimes, and be required to report these numbers on an annual basis.

B.) Local, state-wide and regional law enforcement shall hereby receive support from the department of Justice to establish online reporting of hate crimes or incidents, with said data available on a monthly and yearly basis.

C.) $50 million in training grants shall hereby be appropriated to improve the reporting of hate crimes and to expand co-operation and inter-agency working practices.

People's Regional Senate
Passed 6-0 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,