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192. Woodward, pp. 173–174. Valerie Jenness and Kendal Broad, Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1997, p. 24. Perlmutter, pp. 203–204. Jenness and Broad, pp. 142–143. Quoted in Cleary, Edward J. V. Case. New York: Random House, 1994, p. xiv. Jenness and Broad, p. 147. ” Texas Monthly, April 2001, p. 64. Editorial, Dallas Morning News. May 2, 2001, p. 14A. American Psychological Association, Hate Crimes Today: An Age-Old Foe in Modern Dress, p.
But the rising tension needed only a spark to bring open violence, and that spark was struck on August 19, 1991, when a seven-year-old African-American boy, Gavin Cato, was killed by a car that was part of a Hasidic Jewish motorcade. In the riots that broke out subsequently, a Jewish student, Yankel Rosenbaum, was chased down by a mob and stabbed to death. Rosenbaum identified his killer before dying in a hospital a few hours later. The Crown Heights riots enveloped the administration of Mayor David Dinkins in controversy.
Some saw the reporting of hate crime as a blemish on their community, and thus underreported it. On the other hand, a high (and inaccurate) reporting of hate crimes sometimes backed up a demand for the hiring of more police officers, or the granting of additional public funds for equipment and salaries. Above it all lay the possibility that the raw numbers could be manipulated— hate crimes could be shown to be “increasing” or “insignificant”—to support or denigrate a certain point of view. The raw statistics of hate crime gradually turned into a debating point for both sides of the overriding issue: whether hate-crimes laws are necessary, effective, or constitutional.