Would a reduction of 98% in Special Education funding be described as a hate crime?
Crimes and violence against people with disabilities is an invisible epidemic. These are largely violent or personal crimes, rape, assault, and murder, as well as economic crimes. Most experts agree that the rate of violent crime is from 4 to 10 times higher for people with disabilities than for the general population.
The motivation for such crimes are based on deep psychological distortions such as bias, contempt, hate, anger, deep insecurity, the need for dominance, and a discomfort with the different. There are offenders who deliberately target people with disabilities. These are often people who are intensely insecure with a constant need to address their feelings of inadequacy and lack of control over others. They seek authority and control and a sense of superiority over others perceived as inferior and vulnerable. This is a description of a classic bias or hate crime.
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