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The FBI Hate Crime Threat Response Guide describes how to respond to various types of hate crime threats (physical, verbal, phoned, electronic, and written or visual threats). It provides instructions, including contact information for FBI field offices, on reporting hateful threats and harassment.
As required by the National Defense Authorization Act, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, have produced this strategic intelligence assessment on domestic terrorism, which includes a discussion of activities, certain data on domestic terrorism matters, and recommendations.
This 13-webinar series provides juvenile justice professionals, law enforcement, and school communities an understanding of youth hate crimes and hate groups along with strategies to prevent hate crimes and mitigate microaggressions and implicit bias. Additional content will be tailored to the series’ three audience cohorts:
- Juvenile justice professionals (juvenile justice specialists, juvenile court personnel, and juvenile probation officers)
- Law enforcement professionals
- School communities (administrators, teachers, school resource officers, school social workers, community youth workers, and parents)
This White House strategy represents the most comprehensive and ambitious U.S. government effort to counter antisemitism in American history. The strategy advances a whole-of-society approach to countering antisemitism, resting on four pillars:
- Increase awareness and understanding of antisemitism, including its threat to America, and broaden appreciation of Jewish American heritage.
- Improve safety and security for Jewish communities.
- Reverse the normalization of antisemitism and counter antisemitic discrimination.
- Build cross-community solidarity and collective action to counter hate.
This document outlines actions that faith-based organizations and community leaders can take to increase security. These six steps can help protect places of worship against potential threats of targeted violence in a cost-effective manner that maintains an open and welcoming environment.
This flyer provides key contact information and QR codes for the VictimConnect Resource Center, a victim services program funded by the Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime. The flyer is available in English and Spanish. Additional flyers, in English and Spanish, are available in the 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Resource Guide.
This document provides contact information and other resources to persons who believe they have experienced or witnessed a hate crime or hate incident. It also describes proactive steps that communities can take to protect themselves before any incident occurs.
This document provides contact information and other resources to persons who believe they have experienced or witnessed a hate crime or hate incident. It also describes proactive steps that communities can take to protect themselves before any incident occurs.
This fact sheet outlines the Department’s efforts to implement Attorney General Merrick Garland’s directives to increase resources to combat hate crimes through federal law enforcement action and to enhance training, support and outreach to state and local partners. View the resource in Spanish.
On June 27 and 29, 2022, CRS hosted virtual protecting places of worship forums to provide interfaith communities with resources and information on securing their places of worship, help faith leaders build relationships with law enforcement, and answer questions. A total of more than 500 faith-based and other community members attended the forums.
Agenda
- Welcome and Introductions, Paul Monteiro, Director, U.S. Department of Justice, Community Relations Service and Harpreet S. Mokha, National Program Manager for Muslim, Arab, Sikh, South Asian, and Hindu, U.S. Department of Justice, Community Relations Service
- Overview of Hate Crimes Laws, Investigations, and Active Shooter Training, Michael Campion, Chief, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey
- Securing Places of Worship, Steven Long, Regional Protective Security Advisor, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
- Grants and Other Resources, Mark Silveira, Senior Advisor and Branch Chief, Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Q&A