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The National Coalition for the Homeless issued their annual look at attacks on homeless people yesterday. It got front page coverage on Saturday in the New York Times with details of attacks in Las Vegas and they mentioned the brutal murder of Anthony Waters in Cleveland. Today, NPR's Weekend Edition interviewed Brian Levin a criminologist from California who argued that we needed to add homeless people to current hate crimes laws. Levin helped NCH compile this report. He talked about the reality that we are seeing twice as many attacks on homeless people according to this report when compared to every other hate crime leading to murder (as tracked by the FBI). This report also shows that 70% of the crimes are perpetrated by those age 25 or below. We need Ohio legislators to add homeless people to the hate crimes statute.
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