Omitting the Vulnerable

Omitting the Vulnerable

Journalists ignore bias crimes against persons with disabilities because the police do not consider abuse of persons with disabilities a hate crime. An accusation of mental illness justifies abusing them? The Anti Defamation League intentionally omits persons with disabilities from their focus. The New York Post joins in the omission. (ANGELA MONTEFINISE, "JEWS AND GAYS HIT AS BIAS CRIME SOARS," New York Post, November 12, 2006)
"It never entered my mind," said Robert Greenleaf, FBI agent in Charge of Boston's FBI office, when asked about the 19 murders by FBI informants. Is that what the Post editors say as well? As a public service the Post publishes reports from the NYPD and the ADL omitting persons with disabilities.
In Cambridge, MA the Harvard educated homosexual black mayor openly insults and censors persons with disabilities too. In August 2006 the National Organization on Disability rewarded this abuse designating Cambridge the most accessible city. Why does the Post join the incubator of limousine liberals in perpetuating an abuse of a fifth of the population?
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Roy Bercaw, Editor
ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA

JEWS AND GAYS HIT AS BIAS CRIME SOARS
New York Post
By ANGELA MONTEFINISE
November 12, 2006
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The number of hate crimes in the city is up almost 8 percent from last year, with attacks on Jews and gays spiking the most, according to NYPD stats. There were 230 confirmed verbal and physical incidents designated bias crimes by police from Jan. 1 to Nov. 5 of this year - up from 214 in the same period last year. The number of crimes against Jews surged 28 percent, to 95 from 74. Anti-gay crimes jumped 20 percent, to 47 from 39. There were 42 crimes against gays in all of 2004 and 44 in all of 2005.
"We're certainly concerned about it," said Carole Reeder, of PFLAG, a gay-rights advocacy group. "It is regrettable when there is an increase in the number of crimes against any group of people." One of the crimes was the brutal October murder of Michael Sandy, a gay man from Brooklyn who was chased onto the Belt Parkway by four white teenagers and killed by a passing car. The four attackers, who were all arrested and charged with hate crimes, made contact with Sandy on an online gay-dating site and arranged to meet him at Plum Beach, a known gay hookup spot in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. "Certainly, gays are targeted in some areas," Reeder said.
The NYPD said, "Those statistics cannot be attributed to any specific pattern or trend." The Anti-Defamation League, which looks primarily at anti-Semitic incidents, also said there was no "discernable reason" for the increase. The increase in hate crimes spans almost all categories, with an increase in bias attacks against blacks, Asians, Muslims and Hispanics. The numbers of crimes against Asians and Hispanics were low but each had more than doubled - there were three anti-Asian attacks in 2005 and seven in 2006.
One anti-Hispanic attack took place in 2005 compared to three in 2006. Two Asian-American teens became the victims of a bias attack in Queens in August, when two white thugs yelled at them to get out of their neighborhood before viciously beating them. The only declines were against whites and "others" - the category that covers crimes that affected more than one ethnic group at once, "like a swastika being painted on a black church," a police spokesman said. Anti-Defamation League spokesman Joel Levy said the higher numbers may be due to a spike in the reporting of crimes.
"The police are going into communities and making them feel more comfortable, so people who used to be nervous about coming forward and reporting a crime are now coming forward," he said.
angela.montefinise@nypost.com